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2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Listeria moncytogenes cross-contaminates infants in a newborn nursery.
"Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes cross-contamination in a nursery is presented. Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b was isolated from the blood and the conjunctiva of a baby with neonatal sepsis who was born after septic amnionitis and premature rupture of membrane," wrote R. Colodner and colleagues, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Israel.
"Nine days later, the same bacterium was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of a second baby presenting with meningitis," scientists said.
"Cervical cultures from the second baby's healthy mother were negative for Listeria sp. An in-depth epidemiologic investigation revealed that the same nurse administered routine treatments to both babies, to the nursery during a 1-hour interval of time."
"Pulse-field gel electrophoresis analysis of both strains with 2 different restriction enzymes ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Listeria moncytogenes cross-contaminates infants in a newborn nursery.