Prevalence of MRSA nasal carriage among pregnant women in Copenhagen.

Mona Katrine Alberthe HolmThilde Nordmann WintherSisse KammannMarianne Skovby RasmussonLis BrooksHenrik Torkil WesthMette Damkjær Bartels

Published in: PloS one (2021)

Infants of the two MRSA positive women were not admitted to a NICU and therefore the screening had no impact on NICU outbreaks. The low prevalence of MRSA found in this study does not justify MRSA screening of all pregnant women in Denmark.

Keyphrases

methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
staphylococcus aureus
pregnant women
preterm infants
risk factors
pregnancy outcomes
polycystic ovary syndrome
adipose tissue
metabolic syndrome