RESUMO
Between February 1983 and September 1985, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus involving 151 patients and staff occurred in a district general hospital. At its peak, 43 cases occurred in 3 months. Sixty-two patients suffered morbidity and two died. Conventional isolation techniques and once-daily whole body washing of affected patients with triclosan successfully controlled the outbreak.
Assuntos
Antissepsia/métodos , Surtos de Doenças/prevenção & controle , Meticilina , Infecções Estafilocócicas/epidemiologia , Banhos , Inglaterra , Hospitais com mais de 500 Leitos , Hospitais Gerais , Humanos , Resistência às Penicilinas , Estudos Retrospectivos , Infecções Estafilocócicas/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções Estafilocócicas/prevenção & controle , Staphylococcus aureus/isolamento & purificação , Triclosan/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
In two cases of conjunctivitis in neonates Branhamella (Neisseria) catarrhalis was identified as the causative organism. A misdiagnosis of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum would have been made in both cases if the diagnosis had been based on morphological grounds alone. Thus, full identification of the pathogen in cases of neonatal conjunctivitis is important to avoid the medical and social consequences of a misdiagnosis of gonorrhoea.
