Abstract
Sick newborns admitted to neonatal units in low-resource settings are at an increased risk of developing hospital-acquired infections due to poor clinical care practices. Clusters of infection, due to the same species, with a consistent antibiotic resistance profile, and in the same ward over a short period of time might be indicative of an outbreak. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to define the transmission pathways and characterise two distinct outbreaks of neonatal bacteraemia in a west African neonatal unit.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | E119-E129 |
| Journal | The Lancet Microbe |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Jul 2020 |