We have had a few discussions the past three weeks about MRSA in NICU. All 
of the babies are cultured each week in the unit and if postive are put on  
isolation. The problem then is that the infectioncontrol people want the mother 
not to put the baby skin to skin or breastfeed, have no problem with brestmilk. 
I have been trying to get more info however have fould only on article. 
So ,yes this is becoming a problem none of the babies are symtomatic in any 
way, we don't culture the mother or the staff. So we are fighting to keep the 
babies skin to skin.
There is no screening done to my knowledge on admission to the general 
hospital floors only in the NICU.
What are the rest of you doing? 

Marilyn Fergus 
Happy Thanksgiving  to all!

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