Staphylococcus capitis isolated from bloodstream infections: a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units
Marie Decalonne, Sandra Dos Santos, Rémi Gimenes, Florent Goube, Géraldine Abadie, Saïd Aberrane, V. Ambrogi, Raoul Baron, Patrick Barthelemy, I. Bauvin, Olivier Belmonte, Emilie Benabid, Rafik Ben Ammar, Salma Ben Hadj Yahia, Yasmina Berrouane, P. Berthelot, Alain Beuchée, Emmanuelle Bille, Pascal Bolot, Stéphanie Bordes-Couecou, Antoine Bouissou, Sandra Bourdon, Nadège Bourgeois‐Nicolaos, Sophie Boyer, C. Cattoën, Vincent Cattoir, C. Chaplain, Céline Chatelet, Aurore Claudinon, Nathalie Chautemps, H. Cormier, Céline Coroller-Bec, Benjamin Cotte, Carole De Chillaz, Olivier Dauwalder, Aude Davy, Martine Delorme, Maryvonne Demasure, Luc Desfrère, Michel Drancourt, Clarisse Dupin, Véronique Faraut-Derouin, Arnaud Florentin, Virginie Forget, Nicolas Fortineau, Tania Foucan, Pierre Frange, Karine Gambarotto, Géraldine Gascoin, Laure Gibert, Jacques Gilquin, Audrey Glanard, J. Grando, Alain Gravet, Jérôme Guinard, Geneviève Héry-Arnaud, C. Huart, Nadia Idri, Jean-Marc Jellimann, Olivier Join‐Lambert, Sylvie Joron, P. Jouvencel, Marie Kempf, S. Ketterer-Martinon, Mouna Khecharem, S Klosowski, Franck Labbé, Adeline Lacazette, Fabrice Lapeyre, Jérôme Larché, Peggy Larroude, Anne Le Pourhiennec, Nolwenn Le Saché, Sylvie Ledru, A. Lefèbvre, C. Legeay, Florence Lémann, Claire Lesteven, Marion Levast-Raffin, David Leyssene, Isabelle Ligi, Alain Lozniewski, Pierre Lureau, Franck-Olivier Mallaval, Edith Malpote, Stéphane Marret, Pascale Martres, Guillaume Ménard, Laura Menvielle, Laurent Méreghetti, V. Merle, Pascale Minery, Virginie Morange, Julien Mourdie, Anaëlle Muggeo, Jean Nakhleh, Marie-Noëlle Noulard, Claude Olive, Hugues Patural, Pascale Penn
Abstract
To increase the knowledge about S. capitis in the neonatal setting, we conducted a nationwide 3-month survey in 38 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) covering 56.6% of French NICU beds. We demonstrated 14.2% of S. capitis BSI (S.capBSI) among nosocomial BSIs. S.capBSI incidence rate was 0.59 per 1000 patient-days. A total of 55.0% of the S.capBSIs were late onset catheter-related BSIs. The S. capitis strains infected preterm babies (median gestational age 26 weeks, median birth weight 855 g). They were resistant to methicillin and aminoglycosides and belonged to the NRCS-A clone. Evolution was favorable in all but one case, following vancomycin treatment.