Nosocomial ringworm in a neonatal intensive care unit: a nurse and her cat.
An outbreak of nosocomial ringworm involved five infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. The index case was a nurse infected with Microsporum canis by her cat. After standard infection control measures were initiated, the outbreak was resolved successfully by an interdisciplinary professional collaboration of physician and veterinary dermatologists and infection control personnel.
Drusin
L M
LM
Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, The Animal Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Ross
B G
BG
Rhodes
K H
KH
Krauss
A N
AN
Scott
R A
RA
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003428:Cross Infection; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017053:Infection Control; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D014005:Tinea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D015047:Zoonoses