160. Reduction in the Spread of Hospital-Associated Infections Among Pediatric Oncology Patients in an Animal-Assisted Intervention Program from a Canine Decolonization Procedure

BACKGROUND: Animal-assisted interventions (AAI), the use of animals as a complementary therapy in holistic patient care, has shown many positive outcomes. However, therapy animals can serve as mechanical vectors of hospital-associated infections (HAI), e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure...

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Autores principales: Dalton, Kathryn, Ruble, Kathy, DeLone, Alexandra, Frankenfield, Pam, Walker, Destiny, Ludwig, Shanna, Ross, Tracy L, Jaskulski, Janice, Carroll, Karen C, Rankin, Shelley, Morris, Daniel, Chen, Allen, Davis, Meghan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253034/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.030

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