Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration?
Very low birth weight infants often have protracted respiratory tract colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum. To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs f...
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| author | Joanne E Embree Michelle Alfa Joy Lertzman Gloria Gray Carlos Fajardo Annalee Yassi |
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| description | Very low birth weight infants often have protracted respiratory tract colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum. To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs for U urealyticum culture were obtained from medical, nursing and other support staff working in the neonatal intensive care and level II nurseries at the Health Sciences Centre and the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throat colonization by U urealyticum was demonstrated in 7.3% (95% ci 0 to 15.6%) of 41 nurses working in the intensive care nurseries but in none of the 48 nurses working in other locations or the 66 other individuals tested (P=0.02). However, throat colonization was not significantly higher among the neonatal intensive care nurses than among the women delivering at one of the study institutions. Close contact with very low birth weight infants appears to constitute a minimal risk for increased throat colonization with U urealyticum among hospital staff members. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-26ebb468635f4075b97f2df9977f96de2025-02-03T01:01:46ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases1180-23321994-01-015523323610.1155/1994/587573Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration?Joanne E Embree0Michelle Alfa1Joy Lertzman2Gloria Gray3Carlos Fajardo4Annalee Yassi5Health Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaHealth Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaHealth Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaHealth Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaHealth Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaHealth Sciences Centre and St Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaVery low birth weight infants often have protracted respiratory tract colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum. To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs for U urealyticum culture were obtained from medical, nursing and other support staff working in the neonatal intensive care and level II nurseries at the Health Sciences Centre and the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throat colonization by U urealyticum was demonstrated in 7.3% (95% ci 0 to 15.6%) of 41 nurses working in the intensive care nurseries but in none of the 48 nurses working in other locations or the 66 other individuals tested (P=0.02). However, throat colonization was not significantly higher among the neonatal intensive care nurses than among the women delivering at one of the study institutions. Close contact with very low birth weight infants appears to constitute a minimal risk for increased throat colonization with U urealyticum among hospital staff members.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1994/587573 |
| spellingShingle | Joanne E Embree Michelle Alfa Joy Lertzman Gloria Gray Carlos Fajardo Annalee Yassi Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| title | Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? |
| title_full | Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? |
| title_fullStr | Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? |
| title_short | Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? |
| title_sort | throat colonization of neonatal nursery staff by ureaplasma urealyticum an infection control or occupational health consideration |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1994/587573 |
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