There is an update regarding the new alert for the Citrobacter taken at Verona last Friday 3 May 2024 at the Borgo Trento hospital, when three premature infants had an abnormal result to the bacterium test: only one child is still positive but not infected. Despite this, precautionary anti-contagion measures continue at the Veneto facility.
Citrobacter Verona, only one positive but not infected newborn
Excellent news from the Borgo Trento hospital in Verona: after the Citrobacter nightmarefor which three premature newborns tested positive last May 3, 2024, the new results of the screening carried out yesterday, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, have arrived.
Luckily, only one of the three children still tests positive to the bacterium but he is not infected and is well.
A fear that haunts new parents following an event that occurred four years ago in the same hospital facility, when Citrobacter infected around a hundred children with 4 dead e about ten newborns who had reported disabilities.
The surveillance and isolation measures put in place
Although the alarm appears to have been resolved, the Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Verona continues to implement precautionary isolation and surveillance measures in order to quell a possible contagion of the bacterium.
As a precaution, the structure hosts only pregnant women from the 34th week. This is because babies born after this week are at no risk. Transmission can, in fact, occur during childbirth or by contact.
In detail, in order to avoid the presence of any pollutants, the checks of water systems and water testingas well as genomic analysis to understand whether the Citrobacter strain found is the same as four years ago.
This is also explained in video service of Tv7, television of our editorial group Netweek:
