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In the past decade there has been a rapid proliferation of regional neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the United States. There can be no doubt that the advances in intensive care offered in such units have permitted the survival of critically ill, very low birth weight babies who surely would have perished just a few years ago. Unfortunately, the recovery of many babies has been jeopardized by nosocomial infections, which have become a significant hazrd of neonatal intensive care. In recent years there have been numerous fulminant, difficult-to-control outbreaks of nosocomial infection, often associated with considerable morbidity and high mortality rates (1–9). Whereas Staphylococcus aureus was the major nursery pathogen during the 1950’s, today’s epidemics are usually caused by gram-negative bacilli such as Klebsilla, Enterobacter and Pseudomonas.
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Goldmann, D.A. (1982). Bacterial Infection in ihe Critically-Ill Neonate. In: Van Furth, R. (eds) Evaluation and Management of Hospital Infections. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7657-3_23
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