Epidemiology and Prevention of Nursery-Derived Staphylococcal Disease

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Abstract
SUBSTANTIAL knowledge of the epidemiology of staphylococcal disease among newborn infants and their mothers was gained from earlier investigations in Seattle1 , 2 and elsewhere.3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 It had been determined that hospital nurseries were the usual source of infection for infants, and that infected, nursing infants were the usual source of maternal infection. However, knowledge of the community-wide distribution of staphylococcal disease was limited, and various investigators were not in accord on which measures were most practical and effective for the prevention of this disease.7 , 14 , 15 An earlier study1 had demonstrated that morbidity histories, obtained directly by telephone from mothers during their second post-partum . . .