Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Transmission and Infections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit despite Active Surveillance Cultures and Decolonization: Challenges for Infection Prevention

Abstract

Current strategies to prevent infections-including active identification and decolonization of MRSA-colonized neonates-are inadequate because infants develop infections before being identified as colonized or after attempted decolonization. Future prevention efforts would benefit from improving detection of MRSA colonization, optimizing decolonization regimens, and identifying and interrupting reservoirs of transmission.