Funding: Toyooka Public Hospital Clinical Research Fund.
Keywords: MRSA, pregnancy, vertical transmission, neonatal
infection, SSTIs.
Tweetable abstract:
Approximately 40% of vaginal MRSA are vertically transmitted at
delivery and may increase SSTIs in neonates.
The prevalence of MRSA carriers among pregnant women in Japan was 6.1%. Although vaginal MRSA colonization is uncommon (approximately 1%), MRSA was transmitted vertically to neonates at delivery in four out of nine cases.