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Role of Decolonization in a Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Cohort Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Aaron M. Milstone ,
Alicia Budd ,
John W. Shepard ,
Tracy Ross ,
Susan Aucott ,
Karen C. Carroll  and
Trish M. Perl
Aaron M. Milstone*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Baltimore, Maryland
Alicia Budd
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Baltimore, Maryland
John W. Shepard
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Baltimore, Maryland
Tracy Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland
Susan Aucott
Affiliation:
Division of Neonatology, Baltimore, Maryland
Karen C. Carroll
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland
Trish M. Perl
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, 200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein 3141, Baltimore, MD 21287, (amilstol@jhmi.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , May 2010 , pp. 558 - 560
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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