Real-world experience of how chlorhexidine bathing affects the acquisition and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a medical intensive care unit with VRE endemicity: a prospective interrupted time-series study

BACKGROUND: Critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) often acquire opportunistic infections or are colonized by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), which limits therapeutic options and results in high case-fatality rates. In clinical practice, the beneficial effects of universal ch...

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Autores principales: Suh, Jin Woong, Kim, Nam Hee, Lee, Min Jung, Lee, Seoung Eun, Chun, Byung Chul, Lee, Chang Kyu, Lee, Juneyoung, Kim, Jong Hun, Kim, Sun Bean, Yoon, Young Kyung, Sohn, Jang Wook, Kim, Min Ja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8579179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34758880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-01030-6

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