Overestimation of an Outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Germany, 2015

Conclusions: Forty-one suspected patients were cohorted and the NICU was temporarily closed. Further analyses revealed that only 16 cases belonged to the outbreak. Only close interdisciplinary collaboration and highly discriminatory genotyping methods allowed to clearly differentiate between cases and noncases in this E. cloacae outbreak.
Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Maternal-Neonatal Reports Source Type: research