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Interplay Between Patient Colonization and Environmental Contamination With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Their Association With Patient Health Outcomes in Postacute Care
BACKGROUND: The clinical utility of patient and environmental surveillance screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in the postacute care setting has not been definitively clarified. We assessed the longitudinal relationship between patient colonization and room contamination, and we est...
Autores principales: | Cassone, Marco, Zhu, Ziwei, Mantey, Julia, Gibson, Kristen E, Perri, Mary B, Zervos, Marcus J, Snitkin, Evan S, Foxman, Betsy, Mody, Lona |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6976341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31988973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz519 |
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