Transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from breast milk in the neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Dec;24(12):1122-4. doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000189983.71585.30.

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become increasingly common in neonatal intensive care units and can lead to severe outcomes. Baby C, of a set of quadruplets, died of MRSA sepsis. The surviving siblings were colonized with MRSA. Expressed breast milk was fed to all infants; tested breast milk samples were all MRSA-positive. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis results of isolates from the infants and breast milk were indistinguishable.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology
  • Community-Acquired Infections / transmission*
  • Cross Infection / microbiology
  • Cross Infection / transmission
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant, Low Birth Weight
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases / microbiology*
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal*
  • Male
  • Mastitis / microbiology
  • Methicillin Resistance*
  • Milk, Human / microbiology*
  • Pregnancy
  • Quadruplets
  • Staphylococcal Infections / transmission
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*