Combatting a Tobramycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit: the impact of hygiene intervention and antibiotic substitution
Anna Jogenfors, Sara Mernelius, Sture Löfgren, Malin Bengnér, Johannes Bengnér, Fredrik Ingemansson, Sofia Wetterbrandt, Andreas Matussek · 2026
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Anna Jogenfors and co-authors tell in 2026 how a Swedish newborn unit fought a drug-resistant germ outbreak for a decade. Newborn intensive care holds the frailest infants, so a resistant staph germ there is a grave threat. The alarm rang in 2010, when four infants fell ill with the same strain in their blood.
Checks later found the germ present as early as 2009. Steps over the years included hygiene drives, a rebuilt unit, and a swap of the failing antibiotic for another. Germ rates in checks fell from seventy-one percent in 2010-11 to fifty-two percent in 2013 after hygiene work, they report. The long record shows outbreak control as a grind of many steps, not one fix.
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| CREATOR | Anna Jogenfors, Sara Mernelius, Sture Löfgren, Malin Bengnér, Johannes Bengnér, Fredrik Ingemansson, Sofia Wetterbrandt, Andreas Matussek |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |