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Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-4031, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|June 29, 2001
Abstract:
An outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium involving 28 infants in a neonatal intensive care unit was observed. Successful control of the outbreak was achieved following use of patient and staff cohorting, contact isolation precautions, patient and environmental surveillance cultures, environmental decontamination, molecular typing, introduction of an alcohol-based hand disinfectant, and decreased use of vancomycin.