Pimentel de Araujo, Fernanda
Tinelli, Marco
Battisti, Antonio
Ercoli, Angela
Anesi, Adriano
Pantosti, Annalisa
Monaco, Monica
Article History
Received: 21 July 2017
Accepted: 20 October 2017
First Online: 6 November 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Local Surveillance and Infection Control Committee (CIO) approved the study on September 13, 2013. Informed consent was obtained from parents of infected and non-infected neonates and from medical and non-medical staff. Clinical data and samples (bacterial isolates) were anonymized before being used for the study. Approval by the ethics committee was not required as the study was regarded as part of routine surveillance measures for infection control.
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