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Nosocomial Ringworm in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Nurse and Her Cat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lewis M. Drusin ,
Barbara G. Ross ,
Karen Helton Rhodes ,
Alfred N. Krauss  and
Rachelle A. Scott
Lewis M. Drusin*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York Department of Epidemiology, New York-Cornell Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Barbara G. Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, New York-Cornell Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Karen Helton Rhodes
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The Animal Medical Center, New York, New York
Alfred N. Krauss
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
Rachelle A. Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Dermatology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
*
Department of Epidemiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York-Cornell Campus, 525 East 68th St, New York, NY 10021
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Abstract

An outbreak of nosocomial ringworm involved five infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. The index case was a nurse infected with Microsporum canis by her cat. After standard infection control measures were initiated, the outbreak was resolved successfully by an interdisciplinary professional collaboration of physician and veterinary dermatologists and infection control personnel.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 2000 , pp. 605 - 607
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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