| outbreak of staphylococcal infection in two hospital nurseries traced to a single nasal carrier. | in late january and early february 1983, an outbreak of skin infections (7 of 145 infants) caused by a penicillin/erythromycin resistant strain of staphylococcus aureus (sa), phage type 3a/3c, occurred in our newborn nursery. a week following the first cluster of infections, another nursery outbreak due to sa with the same antibiogram occurred in a nearby community hospital (11 of 114 infants). subsequently, a second cluster of infections with the same sa was identified at our nursery. the epide ... | 1986 | 3640736 |