Nosocomial ringworm in a neonatal intensive care unit: a nurse and her cat. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • An outbreak of nosocomial ringworm involved five infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. The index case was a nurse infected with Microsporum canis by her cat. After standard infection control measures were initiated, the outbreak was resolved successfully by an interdisciplinary professional collaboration of physician and veterinary dermatologists and infection control personnel.

publication date

  • September 1, 2000

Research

keywords

  • Cross Infection
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
  • Tinea

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0033796116

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1086/501814

PubMed ID

  • 11001268

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 21

issue

  • 9