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Multicenter study of hand carriage of potential pathogens by neonatal ICU healthcare personnel

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (2015) 4(3) 276-279
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piu022
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A multicenter surveillance study was performed to determine the rates of hand carriage of potential pathogens among healthcare personnel in four neonatal intensive care units. Staphylococcus aureus, enterococci, and gram-negative bacilli were recovered from 8%, 3%, and 2% of 1000 hand culture samples, respectively.

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Ferng, Y. hui, Clock, S. A., Wong-Mcloughlin, J., DeLaMora, P. A., Perlman, J. M., Gray, K. S., … Saiman, L. (2015). Multicenter study of hand carriage of potential pathogens by neonatal ICU healthcare personnel. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 4(3), 276–279. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piu022

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