The toilet as a transmission vector of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
J Hosp Infect
; 40(3): 237-41, 1998 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-9830594
ABSTRACT
An elderly woman, admitted to the intensive care unit of a large university teaching hospital, was found to be colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci leading to the temporary closure of the unit. She had acquired the organism nosocomially, most likely from an environmental source, which had been contaminated when the toilet of a former patient, also colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci, had become blocked and overflowed throughout his and the adjoining room. This is the first report of a hospital toilet as the transmission vector for vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Banheiros
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Reservatórios de Doenças
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Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos
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Vancomicina
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Infecção Hospitalar
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Controle de Infecções
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Enterococcus
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Antibacterianos
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article