Role of decolonization in a comprehensive strategy to reduce methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in the neonatal intensive care unit: An observational cohort study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 558-560

  Milstone, Aaron M ^a,b   Budd, Alicia ^b   Shepard, John W ^b   Ross, Tracy ^a   Aucott, Susan ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUPIROCIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951083036     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652449     Document Type: Article

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