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Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant Organism Susceptibility to Chlorhexidine Under Usual Clinical Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2017

Jackson S. Musuuza ,
Ajay K. Sethi ,
Tonya J. Roberts  and
Nasia Safdar
Jackson S. Musuuza
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
Ajay K. Sethi
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Tonya J. Roberts
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar*
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence to Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, UWMF Centennial Building, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Increasing use of daily chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing can potentially lead to selection for organisms with reduced susceptibility to CHG, limiting the utility of CHG. We examined reduced susceptibility to CHG of fluoroquinolone-resistant gram-negative bacilli and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus. No evidence suggested reduced susceptibility to CHG.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:729–731

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , June 2017 , pp. 729 - 731
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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