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Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John M. Boyce ,
Leonard A. Mermel ,
Marcus J. Zervos ,
Louis B. Rice ,
Gail Potter-Bynoe ,
Christina Giorgio  and
Antone A. Medeiros
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Abstract

After controlling an epidemic of vanB-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), we contained a subsequent vanA E faecium outbreak by using prospective laboratory-based surveillance, placing patients with VRE in private rooms, requiring the use of both gowns and gloves by all personnel entering the patients' rooms, and conducting prevalence surveys of patients on affected wards.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 11 , November 1995 , pp. 634 - 637
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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