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Undetected vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus stool colonization in a Veterans Affairs Hospital using a Clostridium
Amy J Ray1, Claudia K Hoyen, Sarbani M Das
1University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|August 21, 2002
Abstract:
We examined the point prevalence of undetected vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) stool colonization in an institution that screens stool samples submitted for Clostridium difficile testing. Of 112 patients not known to be colonized, 10 (9%) had rectal VRE colonization. A prospective algorithm was effective for identification of colonized patients.