Reduction of Clostridium Difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus contamination of environmental surfaces after an intervention to improve cleaning methods

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eckstein, Brittany C ^a   Adams, Daniel A ^a   Eckstein, Elizabeth C ^a   Rao, Agam ^b   Sethi, Ajay K ^c   Yadavalli, Gopala K ^a   Donskey, Curtis J ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEACHING AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FOMITE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARD;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EDUCATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOMITES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PATIENTS' ROOMS; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 34447296689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-61     Document Type: Article

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