Disinfection of Hospital Rooms Contaminated with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 19 (4) , 261-264
- https://doi.org/10.2307/30142418
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.Keywords
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