Effectiveness of gloves in the prevention of hand carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species by health care workers after patient care

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 826-829

  Tenorio, Allan R ^a   Badri, Sheila M ^a   Sahgal, Nishi B ^a,b   Hota, Bala ^a   Matushek, Marian ^a   Hayden, Mary K ^a   Trenholme, Gordon M ^a   Weinstein, Robert A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Metro Infect Diseases Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CONTAMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GLOVE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HYGIENE; INFECTION PREVENTION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAND; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035282359     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319214     Document Type: Article

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