TY - JOUR
T1 - Carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in infants following an outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit
T2 - time to clearance of carriage and use of molecular methods to detect colonization
AU - Schechner, Vered
AU - Lellouche, Jonathan
AU - Stepansky, Sarit
AU - Mandel, Dror
AU - Grisaru-Soen, Galia
AU - Wullfhart, Liat
AU - Schwartz, David
AU - Carmeli, Yehuda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
PY - 2023/3/31
Y1 - 2023/3/31
N2 - Among 46 infants colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit, the estimated time until half had achieved clearance was 217 days. All 40 infants who completed follow-up cleared carriage by 1 year. No predictors of prolonged carriage (> 6 months) were identified.
AB - Among 46 infants colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit, the estimated time until half had achieved clearance was 217 days. All 40 infants who completed follow-up cleared carriage by 1 year. No predictors of prolonged carriage (> 6 months) were identified.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124581172&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/ice.2021.524
DO - 10.1017/ice.2021.524
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C2 - 35098915
AN - SCOPUS:85124581172
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 44
SP - 497
EP - 500
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 3
ER -