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Disinfection of Hospital Rooms Contaminated With Vancomycin-Resistant Entemcocms faecium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Karin E. Byers ,
Lisa J. Durbin ,
Barbara M. Simonton ,
Anne M. Anglim ,
Karim A. Adal  and
Barry M. Farr
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Abstract

Sixteen percent of hospital room surfaces remained colonized by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) after routine terminal disinfection. Disinfection with a new "bucket method" resulted in uniformly negative cultures. Conventional cleaning took an average of 2.8 disinfections to eradicate VRE from a hospital room, while only one cleaning was required with the bucket method.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 1998 , pp. 261 - 264
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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