title: Lack of transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in three long-term-care facilities.
abstract: Three patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus were admitted to one or more of three long-term-care facilities. Six point-prevalence surveys revealed no transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus after a total of 234 days of exposure during which moderately strict infection control measures were implemented. Four of 116 environmental cultures were positive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology at the Centre Hospitalier Régionale du Suroît, Valleyfield-de-Salaberry, Canada.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Greenaway
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D016983:Enterococcus; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000592:standards*; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000379:methods*; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011792:Quebec / Q000453:epidemiology; D014640:Vancomycin
chemical_list: D014640:Vancomycin