Nosocomial Ringworm in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Nurse and Her Cat

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 col...

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Published in:	Infection control and hospital epidemiology Vol. 21; no. 9; pp. 605 - 607
Main Authors:	Drusin, Lewis M., Ross, Barbara G., Rhodes, Karen Helton, Krauss, Alfred N., Scott, Rachelle A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thorofare, NJ The University of Chicago Press 01-09-2000 Slack Cambridge University Press
Subjects:	Adult Animals Biological and medical sciences Cats Concise Communications Cross Infection Dermatology Disease Outbreaks Female Human mycoses Humans Infant, Newborn Infants Infection Control Infections Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient Infectious diseases Intensive Care Units, Neonatal Lesions Male Medical sciences Microsporum Mycoses Mycoses of the skin Neonatal intensive care Nosocomial infection Nurses Nursing Nursing Staff, Hospital Outbreaks Skin Tinea Tinea - epidemiology Tinea - transmission Zoonoses Human Nosocomial infection Skin disease Mycosis Microsporum canis Health staff Intensive care unit Fungi Infection Ring worm Newborn Fungi Imperfecti Transmission mode Thallophyta Nurse
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Summary:	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.
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ISSN:	0899-823X 1559-6834
DOI:	10.1086/501814