Abstract

PARODI, Verónica; ALDAO, John  and  BUSTOS, Raúl. Estafilococo meticilino resistente en la maternidad del Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell. Arch. Pediatr. Urug. [online]. 2007, vol.78, n.1, pp.005-010. ISSN 1688-1249.

Summary In the last decade it had been reported the appearance worldwide infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus methicillin resistant (SAMR) acquired at communities. There are nationals pediatrics publications about this germ that included nonhospitalize patients, this is the first national publication about infection caused by this germ in newborn. The outcome of this paper is to know the prevalence of the infection caused by comunitary Staphylococcus aureus methicillin resistant. A prospective and descriptive study was performed in newborn since July 2004 until a year was completed . During that period were included all newborn with community-acquired SAMR that recquired hospitalizacion. Of 7.553 newborn alive in that period, 33 were diagnosis with comunitary SAMR infection, 9 were admited from their homes, the rest were diagnosed during hospitalizacion after born. Half of them reminded with there mothers, 15 needed hospitalizacion in unit of special care. The most common presentation was cutaneous, six were invasive type. All strains were sensibility to antibiotics vancomycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Only one was resistance to gentamicin, having a variable resistance to clindamicin. Three death in 33 patients, only one caused by this infection.

Keywords : STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; INFANT, NEWBORN.

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