Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus between healthy, lactating mothers and their infants by breastfeeding.
Abstract
The authors have investigated Staphylococcus aureus transmission between healthy, lactating mothers without mastitis and their infants by breastfeeding using both bacteriological and molecular-epidemiological methods. They studied 8 healthy, lactating mothers without clinical signs of mastitis and their infants who were less than 3 months old. They collected samples of breast milk, swabs of the mothers' nipples, the infants' nares, and the infants' oral cavities. There was a 50% transmission rate between the pairs. As the result of 12 antibiotics' susceptibility, Methicillin-resistant S. aureus was isolated from 2 of the 4 pairs. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, the authors determined chromosomal DNA restriction patterns of the S. aureus isolated from 4 mother-infant pairs. The DNA fragment patterns of the organism within a given mother-infant pair were indistinguishable or closely related. The results suggest that methicillin-resistant S. aureus or methicillin-sensitive S. aureus may be transmitted between healthy, lactating mothers without mastitis and their infants by breastfeeding.
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Several authors have reported mother-to-infant transmission of MRSA through breast milk.
“Several authors have reported mother-to-infant transmission of MRSA through breast milk (15,16).”
From Postpartum Mastitis and Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (2007) · cites this paper as [15]
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Postpartum Mastitis and Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>
Reddy, P., Qi, C., Zembower, T., Noskin, G. A., & Bolon, M. (2007) · Emerging Infectious Diseases · doi:10.3201/eid1302.060989 · Cited by 69 · see citing works
- Authors
- Kawada, M., Okuzumi, K., Md, S. H., & Rn, C. S.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- University of Tokyo Hospital (JP)
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
- Department of Family Nursing, Graduate School of Health Sciences and Nursing Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
- ORCID
- Kawada, Midori
- Venue
- Journal of Human Lactation
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-11
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 411-417
- ISSN
- 0890-3344 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-5732
- OpenAlex
- W2029196133
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Human Lactation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
- Keywords
- Staphylococcus aureus, breastfeeding, mother-to-child transmission, lactating women, infants, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, breast milk, antibiotic susceptibility, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, molecular epidemiology
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Breast Feeding, Carrier State, DNA, Bacterial, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Milk, Human, Staphylococcal Infections, Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin Resistance, Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
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