A silent outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit

OBJECTIVE: To describe the containment of a widespread silent outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE-fm) in the Tel-Aviv Medical Center (TASMC) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS: Setting - an NICU, participants - 49 cases of VRE-fm-colonized neonatal inpatients. RESULT...

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Autores principales: Marom, Ronella, Mandel, Dror, Haham, Alon, Berger, Irit, Ovental, Amit, Raskind, Craig, Grisaru-Soen, Galia, Adler, Amos, Lellouche, Jonathan, Schwartz, David, Carmeli, Yehuda, Schechner, Vered
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32546210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00755-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32546210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00755-0

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