EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION WITH VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECIUM - POSSIBLE TRANSMISSION BY AN ELECTRONIC EAR-PROBE THERMOMETER

Authors
PORWANCHER R SHETH A REMPHREY S TAYLOR E HINKLE C ZERVOS M
Citation
R. Porwancher et al., EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION WITH VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECIUM - POSSIBLE TRANSMISSION BY AN ELECTRONIC EAR-PROBE THERMOMETER, Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 18(11), 1997, pp. 771-773
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0899823X
Volume
18
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
771 - 773
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-823X(1997)18:11<771:EOHIWV>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Clonal spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium among seven patients on one ward of a community teaching hospital was identified by contour-clamped homogeneous electric-field gel electrophoresis. Env ironmental cultures isolated the same strain from the handle of a shar ed electronic ear-probe thermometer. Cross-contamination of the clonal strain between two geographically separate units on this ward, sharin g equipment but not personnel, suggests the possibility of an environm ental source (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1997;18:771-774).