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Lack of Transmission of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Three Long-Term–Care Facilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christina A. Greenaway  and
Mark A. Miller
Christina A. Greenaway
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology at the Centre Hospitalier Régionale du Suroît, Valleyfield-de-Salaberry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mark A. Miller*
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Division of Infectious Disease, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*
Department of Microbiology, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote-Ste-Catherine, Room G-139, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada
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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.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 341 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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