Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · May 2001
Outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection in a neonatal intensive care unit.
We report an outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection in the neonatal intensive care unit of a community hospital. The outbreak involved eight neonates, (five infected and three colonized), one of whom died. ⋯ Cohorting and isolation of the infected neonates helped to control the outbreak. No environmental source of infection was found.