Effect of the first bath with chlorhexidine on skin colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in normal healthy term newborns

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 615-620

  Da Cunha, Maria ^a,b   Procianoy, Renato ^a,b   Franceschini, Debora ^a   De Oliveira, Laura ^a   Cunha, Maria L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; SOAP;

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BATHS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHLORHEXIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 48249142827     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540801932447     Document Type: Article

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