Carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in infants following an outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit: time to clearance of carriage and use of molecular methods to detect colonization

Among 46 infants colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit, the estimated time until half had achieved clearance was 217 days. All 40 infants who completed follow-up cleared carriage by 1 year. No predictors of prolonged carriage (&...

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Autores principales: Schechner, Vered, Lellouche, Jonathan, Stepansky, Sarit, Mandel, Dror, Grisaru-Soen, Galia, Wullfhart, Liat, Schwartz, David, Carmeli, Yehuda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35098915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.524

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35098915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.524

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