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Targeted Surveillance to Identify Children Colonized with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Aaron M. Milstone ,
Lisa L. Maragakis ,
Karen C. Carroll  and
Trish M. Perl
Aaron M. Milstone*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Lisa L. Maragakis
Affiliation:
the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Karen C. Carroll
Affiliation:
the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland and the Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, Baltimore, Maryland
Trish M. Perl
Affiliation:
the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Departments of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, John Hopkins School of Medicine, 200 North Wolfe Street, Rub-enstein 3141, Baltimore, MD 21287 ([email protected])
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Performing admission surveillance cultures is a resource-intensive strategy to identify asymptomatic patients with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonization. We measured VRE prevalence among children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit. Targeted surveillance captured 94% of VRE-colonized children and may be an effective strategy to identify VRE carriers and facilitate pediatric infection prevention strategies.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 95 - 98
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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