USE OF BACTERIAL INTERFERENCE TO CONTROL A STAPHYLOCOCCAL NURSERY OUTBREAK - DELIBERATE COLONIZATION OF ALL INFANTS WITH 502A STRAIN OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS ARUEUS
USE OF BACTERIAL INTERFERENCE TO CONTROL A STAPHYLOCOCCAL NURSERY OUTBREAK - DELIBERATE COLONIZATION OF ALL INFANTS WITH 502A STRAIN OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS ARUEUS
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DOI:
10.1001/archpedi.1967.02090180051001
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发表时间:
1967-01-01
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BRACKVOGEL, V
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作者:
LIGHT, IJ;WALTON, RL;BRACKVOGEL, V
A nursery outbreak of a pathogenic strain of Staphylococcus aureus (80/81) was successfully controlled by purposely colonizing all infants with a previously described coagulase-positive Staphylococcus of relatively/ low pathogenicity (502A). Cultures from the nasal and umbilical sites streaked on media with and without penicillin demonstrated that infants colonized with the 502A strain rarely harbor other coagulase-positive staphylococci at the same site. Among the inoculated infants, the low incidence of pustular lesions (less than 5%) and the minor nature of the lesions confirmed the low virulence of the 502A strain. Lesions occurred more frequently when more organisms were inoculated. Among the personnel, many of the nasal carriers of pathogenic staphylococci were transient carriers and lost the pathogenic strain when it disappeared from the infants. A step-by-step description of the laboratory procedures and method of colonization is presented.