Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing in General Hospital Units – Results of the ABATE Infection Trial (Active BAThing to Eliminate Infection)

BACKGROUND: Universal decolonization with daily chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing with and without nasal decolonization has significantly reduced positive MRSA clinical cultures and bloodstream infections in adult ICUs in several clinical trials. We evaluated whether decolonization was similarly effective...

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Autores principales: Huang, Susan S, Septimus, Edward, Kleinman, Ken, Moody, Julia, Hickok, Jason, Heim, Lauren, Gombosev, Adrijana, Avery, Taliser, Haffenreffer, Katherine, Shimelman, Lauren, Hayden, Mary K, Weinstein, Robert A, Spencer-Smith, Caren, Kaganov, Rebecca E, Murphy, Michael V, Forehand, Tyler, Lankiewicz, Julie, Coady, Micaela H, Portillo, Lena M, Sarup, Jalpa Patel, Jernigan, John A, Perlin, Jonathan, Platt, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631908/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.088

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631908/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.088

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