title: A nursery outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma originating from a nurse with paronychia.
abstract: An outbreak of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma occurred in the nursery of a tertiary-care referral center. All strains retrieved from the outbreak, including one from a nurse's infected finger, were typed by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction and automated ribotyping. The results indicated that the spread of the outbreak was probably facilitated by contamination of the nurse with paronychia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Wen-Tsung
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.forename: Chih-Chien
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Mong-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Chu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers