A retrospective study (2001-2017) of acute and chronic morbidity and mortality associated with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit.

Preterm and low birth weight infants were at highest risk of SAB. Only a small proportion of affected children had long-term clinical sequelae on follow-up. The high rate of recurrence and breakthrough bacteraemia suggests that early implementation of a targeted anti-staphylococcal antimicrobial regimen may be of particular benefit.