Effect of an Antiseptic Skin-Care Regimen in Reducing Staphylococcal Colonization in Newborn Infants

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IN 1952 Farquharson et al.1 reported the control of an outbreak of staphylococcal skin lesions in their nurseries by washing all infants with a hexachlorophene-containing preparation twenty-four hours after delivery and every second day thereafter. Since their report other publications have pointed out the usefulness of hexachlorophene-containing preparations in efforts to control outbreaks of staphylococcal skin lesions in nurseries and in reduction of the incidence of both nasal and skin colonization of newborn infants by staphylococci.Studies by Baldwin and his associates2 reported a significantly lower incidence of nasal colonization in hexachlorophene-washed newborn infants than in a comparable "dry"-skin care . . .

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