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| Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:32 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley has revealed that five babies in its care have become colonised with the hospital acquired infection MRSA.
It is not known whether the infection was brought into the hospital or acquired on the ward but none of the infected children are thought to have been adversely affected by the bug.
One has been allowed home while the others are being monitored in the hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit.
Dr Elizabeth Biggs, control of infection doctor at the hospital, said: "Colonisation means that the MRSA bacterium has been found to be present on the individual at that time but that it was not causing an infection."
The hospital has now stepped up its infection control measures.
Consultant paediatrician, Dr Graham Stewart, said: "The parents of the children identified with MRSA have been kept fully informed and we will continue to monitor the situation on a daily basis."
Professor Ian Gould, a microbiologist at Aberdeen University, told The Scotsman it was extremely rare to find MRSA on children in the UK. "It can lead to very serious infections... but the most intriguing question is how they get it in the first place."
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