Eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from a neonatal intensive care unit by active surveillance and aggressive infection control measures

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 616-621

  Khoury, Jad ^a   Jones, Marilyn ^a   Grim, Autumn ^a   Dunne Jr , Michael ^a   Fraser, Vicky ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEXACHLOROPHENE; METICILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTUBATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MISSOURI; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 23044476038     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502590     Document Type: Article

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