Success of MRSA eradication in hospital routine: Depends on compliance

Infection

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 260-264

  Hansen, D ^a   Patzke, P I ^a   Werfel, U ^b   Benner, D ^a   Brauksiepe, A ^a   Popp, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; OCTENIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTISEPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE SMEAR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BATHS; CARRIER STATE; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MUPIROCIN; PYRIDINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34547679863     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-007-6273-y     Document Type: Article

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