Open AccessEVIDENCE FOR TRANSMISSION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI FROM MOTHER TO CHILD IN LATE-ONSET NEONATAL INFECTION
Author(s) -
Josette Raymond,
E. Narbona López,
Stéphane Bonacorsi,
Claire Poyart,
G Moriette,
PierreHenri Jarreau,
Édouard Bingen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0b013e31815b1b03
Subject(s) - medicine , escherichia coli , amoxicillin , natural history , transmission (telecommunications) , antimicrobial , neonatal infection , pregnancy , microbiology and biotechnology , newborn screening , immunology , pediatrics , antibiotics , gene , biology , genetics , electrical engineering , engineering
Genetic characterization of non-K1 Escherichia coli strains isolated from a mother and her neonate allowed us to provide evidence of the maternal origin of a late-onset neonatal infection. The use of ante- and peripartum antimicrobial prophylaxis with amoxicillin may have promoted the vertical transmission of this amoxicillin-resistant E. coli from mother to newborn. It allowed us to clarify the natural history of the disease.