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Contact precautions in the intensive care unit setting: 12 years of surveillance
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Contact precautions in the intensive care unit setting: 12 years of surveillance

Felipe Maia de Toledo Piza, Alexandre R Marra, Moacyr Silva Jr, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio Camargo, Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo and Michael B Edmond
AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control, Vol.41(4), pp.371-372
04/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.03.031
PMID: 23062660

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Abstract

The utilization of isolation precautions has increased in tertiary care hospitals due to the increase in colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms over time. We assessed the frequency of multidrug-resistant microorganisms responsible for implementation of contact precautions in the ICU of a tertiary care hospital over a 12-year period.
Contact isolation Gram-negative bacteria Multidrug-resistant microorganism Colonization

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