Abstract
In the recent epidemic of staphylococcal infections in the newborn nurseries at Ohio State University Hospital, a single strain of Micrococcus pyogenes, phage type 42B-47C-44A-52, was found to be responsible for all lesions. A report of this epidemic is to be published in Pediatrics (Schaffer, T. E., Baldwin, J. N., Rheins, M.S., and Sylvester, R. L., Jr.: Staphylococcal infections in newborn infants: I. A study of an epidemic among infants and nursing mothers).
Since that time we have had opportunities to study organisms responsible for similar epidemics among newborns and nursing mothers in Portsmouth and Lancaster, Ohio; Lepeer, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Hartford, Wisconsin; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and have found that in every instance phage type 42B-47C-44A-52 was responsible.
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