The effectiveness of routine daily chlorhexidine gluconate bathing in reducing Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae skin burden among long-term acute care hospital patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 440-442

  Lin, Michael Y ^a   Lolans, Karen ^a   Blom, Donald W ^a   Lyles, Rosie D ^b   Weiner, Shayna ^a   Poluru, Kavya B ^a   Moore, Nicholas ^a   Hines, David W ^c   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b   Hayden, Mary K ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology Rush University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c Metro Infectious Diseases Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE; CHLORHEXIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BATH; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NOTE; PREVALENCE; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN SURFACE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SKIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BATHS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHLORHEXIDINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN;

EID: 84895825461     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675613     Document Type: Note

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