Colonization With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci After Discharge From an Epidemic Ward: Results of Outpatient Contact Screening by Visiting Nurses

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 Jun;37(6):731-2. doi: 10.1017/ice.2016.43.

Authors

Cathy Voide¹, Christiane Petignat², Dominique S Blanc², Giorgio Zanetti², Patrick Genoud³, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen⁴, Laurence Senn²

Affiliations

¹ 1Infectious Diseases Service,University Hospital Lausanne,Switzerland.
² 2Service of Hospital Preventive Medicine,University Hospital Lausanne,Switzerland.
³ 3Nursing Directorate,University Hospital Lausanne,Switzerland.
⁴ 4Medical Directorate,University Hospital Lausanne,Switzerland.

PMID: 27198606
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.43

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Carrier State / diagnosis*
Feces / microbiology
Female
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
Humans
Male
Mass Screening / economics
Middle Aged
Nurses, Community Health
Outpatients / statistics & numerical data*
Switzerland
Vancomycin Resistance*
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / isolation & purification*