Jin-Min Yuan, Christopher Nugent, Allegra Wilson, Neville Q Verlander, Eliza Alexander, Paul Fleming, Neena Modi, Kayleigh Oughham, Natasha Ratnaraja, Yu Wan, Louise Thorn, Heather Felgate, Mark A Webber, Enitan Ogundipe, Colin S Brown, Karthik Paranthaman, Alicia Demirjian
OBJECTIVE: Staphylococcus capitis , a coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) species, has been increasingly detected from UK sterile site samples and has caused neonatal unit outbreaks worldwide. We compared survival to discharge and 30-day mortality for the detection of S. capitis versus other CoNS species. METHODS: In this retrospective case-control study, we included hospitalised infants with any CoNS species detected from a normally sterile body site up to 90 days of age...
September 26, 2023: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition