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Is patient isolation the single most important measure to prevent the spread of multidrug-resistant pathogens?

Isolation or cohorting of infected patients is an old concept. Its purpose is to prevent the transmission of microorganisms from infected or colonized patients to other patients, hospital visitors, and health care workers, who may subsequently transmit them to other patients or become infected or co...

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Autores principales: Landelle, Caroline, Pagani, Leonardo, Harbarth, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23302791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/viru.22641