Impact of Detection, Education, Research and Decolonization without Isolation in Long-term care (DERAIL) on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and transmission at 3 long-term care facilities

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2014, Pages S269-S273

  Schora, Donna M ^a   Boehm, Susan ^a   Das, Sanchita ^a   Patel, Parul A ^a   O'Brien, Jennifer ^a   Hines, Carolyn ^b   Burdsall, Deborah ^b   Beaumont, Jennifer ^c   Peterson, Kari ^a   Fausone, Maureen ^a   Peterson, Lance R ^a,d  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b Whitehall of Deerfield ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Care; Infection; Long; MRSA colonization; Prevention; Term

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; CROSS INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE; NURSING HOME; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTANTS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUPIROCIN; NOSE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84922154885     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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