Disinfection of hospital rooms contaminated with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
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.
Byers
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Durbin
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Simonton
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Anglim
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Adal
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Farr
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D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004203:Disinfection / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D016984:Enterococcus faecium / Q000187:drug effects*; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D014481:United States; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D014640:Vancomycin