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L R Ashdown
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The organization of a human milk bank in a North Q ueensland hospital.
The development of a human milk bank with nursing mothers as donors of human milk is described. Breast milk is collected manually, and as aseptically as possible, by the mother in the privacy of her home, and the milk is transported frozen to the milk bank by a member of the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia. A sample of expressed milk is also collected and sent to the Microbiology Department of the Australian Government Health Laboratory for bacteriological examination. The milk bank is suitably located in the paediatric ward of the Townsville General Hospital. Human milk which has been classed as bacteriologically safe is given untreated to hospitalized infants in preference to formula milk. The result is a human milk bank which is administered under medical and microbiological control.
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Neonatal osteomyelitis and meningitis caused by group B streptococci.
A case of neonatal osteomyelitis and meningitis caused by group B streptococci is reported; the organism isolated was found to be similar or the same as an organism cultured form the maternal vagina. The clinical course and management is also described.
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Nosocomial infection due to Pseudomonas pseudomallei: two cases and an epidemiologic study.
Pseudomonas pseudomallei was recovered from urine specimens of two patients who acquired the organism after they were admitted to a hospital in a region in which it is endemic. Both patients were diabetic and both had urethral catheters passed while they were hospitalized. samples of soil taken from the hospital grounds yielded an isolate of P. pseudomallei that was identical biochemically and by antibiogram to the two isolates recovered from the urine specimens of the two patients. The two patients stayed in wards located in separate hospital blocks, which were geographically distinct but connected by a walkway. The relevant clinical histories of the two patients and the epidemiologic and microbiologic characteristics of the P. pseudomallei isolates were studied. Sera from both patients showed a significant rise in titers of antibody specific for P. pseudomallei. These two patients are considered to represent the first reported cases of hospital-acquired infection due to P. pseudomallei.
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