Necrotizing enterocolitis. Epidemic following an outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae type 3305573 in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Twelve cases of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) occurred within three weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with 325 annual admissions. Enterobacter cloacae type 3305573 was found in stool and/or blood cultures from affected babies prior to the onset of the disease. This bacterium could not be grown in cultures from infants in the same NICU six weeks later. A causal relationship between E cloacae and the epidemic of NEC is suggested.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004754:Enterobacter; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D011792:Quebec