Epidemiology and healthcare factors associated with neonatal enterococcal infections

摘要

To investigate the epidemiology and healthcare factors associated with late-onset neonatal enterococcal infections.Multicentre, multinational retrospective cohort study using prospectively collected infection data from a neonatal infection surveillance network between 2004 and 2016; this was supplemented with healthcare data from a questionnaire distributed to participating neonatal units.Sixty neonatal units across Europe (UK, Greece, Estonia) and Australia.Infants admitted to participating neonatal units who had a positive culture of blood, cerebrospinal fluid or urine after 48?hours of life.In total, 414 episodes of invasive.