Outbreaks of Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in hospital settings: A systematic review and calculation of the basic reproductive number

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 289-294

  Satilmis, Laetitia ^a   Vanhems, Philippe ^a,b   Bénet, Thomas ^a,b  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFECTIOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVALENCE; RECTAL SWAB; SCREENING; SMEAR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS INFECTION; WARD; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL; PATHOGENICITY;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI;

EID: 84959232476     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.301     Document Type: Article

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