Wellington Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is imposing strict infection control measures while work is done to eradicate an apparently new strain of Staphylococcus aureus. Around a ...

The benefit of skin-to-skin contact with family members for critically ill newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is well established. Long-standing concerns about the transmission of ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is well known as one of the most frequent etiological agents of healthcare-associated infections. The epidemiology of MRSA is evolving with emergence ...

Nosocomial infections (NI) are a frequent and important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborn infants who receive intensive care. We sought to determine if comprehensive infection control (CIC) ...

Infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are vulnerable to a variety of infections, and occupancy in the unit may correlate with risk of infection. There were 446 (2.3%) lab-confirmed cases of ...