Weekly screening supports terminating nosocomial transmissions of vancomycin-resistant enterococci on an oncologic ward – a retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND: To investigate the impact of weekly screening within the bundle of infection control measures to terminate vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) transmissions on an oncologic ward. METHODS: A cluster of 12 VRE colonisation and five infections was detected on an oncologic ward between Ja...

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Autores principales: Kampmeier, Stefanie, Knaack, Dennis, Kossow, Annelene, Willems, Stefanie, Schliemann, Christoph, Berdel, Wolfgang E., Kipp, Frank, Mellmann, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0206-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0206-z

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