Decolonization

Decolonizing Carriers Can Prevent Recurrrent CA-MRSA Infections, Researchers Say

Yaseen Rafee, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, and colleagues, sought to measure methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization prevalence in household contacts of children with current ...More
February 22, 2012
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Active Surveillance, Decolonization Associated With Decreased HAIs

Fraser TG, et al. (2010) note a relationship between colonization and bacteremia, so they sought to evaluate the effects of an active surveillance program for Staphylococcus aureus linked to a decolonization protocol on the incidence of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) ...More
August 16, 2010
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