Relationship between chlorhexidine gluconate skin concentration and microbial density on the skin of critically Ill patients bathed daily with chlorhexidine gluconate

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 889-896

  Popovich, Kyle J ^a,b   Lyles, Rosie ^b   Hayes, Robert ^a   Hota, Bala ^a,b   Trick, William ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b   Hayden, Mary K ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AEROCOCCUS; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT C; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELBOW; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYGIENE; INGUINAL REGION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROCOCCUS; NECK; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TISSUE CULTURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; BATHS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CHLORHEXIDINE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SKIN; SKIN CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864955851     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667371     Document Type: Article

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