This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Epidemic Following an Outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae Type 3305573 in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Julie Powell, MD; Michel A. Bureau, MD, FRCP(C); Claude Paré, MD; Marie-Lyse Gaildry, MD; Diane Cabana, MD; Heidi Patriquin, MD, FRCP(C)

Am J Dis Child. 1980;134(12):1152-1154.

Abstract
• 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.

(Am J Dis Child 134:1152-1154, 1980)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Pediatrics (Drs Powell, Bureau, Paré, Gaildry, and Cabana) and Radiology (Dr Patriquin), Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Département de Pédiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1H 5N4 (Dr Bureau).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis With Probiotics
Kliegman and Willoughby
Pediatrics 2005;115:171-172.
FULL TEXT