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Predicting clearance of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
Charmaine M Huckabee1, W Charles Huskins, Patrick R Murray
1Rho Federal Systems Division, Inc, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract:
We analyzed surveillance cultures for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) collected during a multicenter trial to determine if three negative cultures collected at weekly intervals would predict clearance of VRE or MRSA from colonized patients. Seventy-two percent of VRE-colonized patients and 94% of MRSA-colonized patients were culture negative after three consecutive negative cultures.
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