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Stool Colonization of Healthcare Workers With Selected Resistant Bacteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yehuda Carmeli ,
Lata Venkataraman ,
Paola C. DeGirolami ,
Deborah A. Lichtenberg ,
Adolf W. Karchmer  and
Matthew H. Samore
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Abstract

We examined the carriage of selected resistant bacteria in the stools of healthcare workers who provided direct patient care. Neither vancomycin-resistant enterococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, nor Clostridium difficile was recovered from the 55 stool specimens collected. A ceftazidime-resistant Citrobacter freundii was isolated from one specimen. We conclude that the stool of healthcare workers is colonized infrequently with these resistant organisms

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 38 - 40
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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