Point-prevalence of contamination of healthcare workers' stethoscopes with vancomycin-resistant enterococci at two teaching hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 756-

  Lange, C G ^a   Morrissey, A B ^a   Donskey, C J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; STETHOSCOPE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0034545139     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503244     Document Type: Letter

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1. The threat of vancomycin resistance
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3. Hospital-acquired infection with vancomycin-resistant Enteroeoccus faecium transmitted by electronic thermometers
4. Epidemiological study of hospital-acquired infection with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: Possible transmission by an electronic earprobe thermometer
5. The stethoscope. A potential source of nosocomial infection?