Disinfection of Hospital Rooms Contaminated With Vancomycin-Resistant Entemcocms faecium
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology1998Vol. 19(4), pp. 261–264
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Abstract
Sixteen percent of hospital room surfaces remained colonized by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) after routine terminal disinfection. Disinfection with a new "bucket method" resulted in uniformly negative cultures. Conventional cleaning took an average of 2.8 disinfections to eradicate VRE from a hospital room, while only one cleaning was required with the bucket method.
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