Xia Wu, Chuanqing Wang, Leiyan He, Hongmei Xu, Chunmei Jing, Yinghu Chen, Jikui Deng, Aiwei Lin, Huiling Deng, Huijun Cai, Yiping Chen, Jinhong Yang, Ting Zhang, Qing Cao, Jianhua Hao, Yuanyuan Huang, Hui Yu
BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause invasive infections with significant mortality in neonates. This study aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics and antibiotic resistance profiles of invasive MRSA infections and determine risk factors associated with invasive MRSA infections in newborn inpatients. METHODS: This multicenter retrospective study of inpatients from eleven hospitals in the Infectious Diseases Surveillance of Pediatrics (ISPED) group of China was performed over a two-year period (2018-2019)...
May 25, 2023: BMC Pediatrics