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830. The effect of a long-stay patient on transmission of a pathogen to shorter-stay patients in a small multi-bed hospital unit: Implications for infection control

BACKGROUND: Objective: To quantify the effect of a long-stay patient in a hospital unit on the likelihood of colonization of that patient and other patients in the unit. Prolonged hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) stays have been found to be risk factors for colonization and infection with bact...

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Autores principales: Ong, Karen, Peskin, Charles, Phillips, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776915/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1019