Disinfection of hospital rooms contaminated with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium - PubMed (original) (raw)

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• DOI: 10.1086/647806

Disinfection of hospital rooms contaminated with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

K E Byers et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1998 Apr.

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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