Predicting clearance of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by use of weekly surveillance cultures

Charmaine M. Huckabee; W. Charles Huskins; Patrick R. Murray

doi:10.1128/JCM.02424-08

Predicting clearance of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by use of weekly surveillance cultures

Charmaine M. Huckabee, W. Charles Huskins, Patrick R. Murray

Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

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We analyzed surveillance cultures for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) collected during a multicenter trial to determine if three negative cultures collected at weekly intervals would predict clearance of VRE or MRSA from colonized patients. Seventy-two percent of VRE-colonized patients and 94% of MRSA-colonized patients were culture negative after three consecutive negative cultures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1229-1230
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	47
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02424-08
State	Published - Apr 2009

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Predicting clearance of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by use of weekly surveillance cultures. / Huckabee, Charmaine M.; Huskins, W. Charles; Murray, Patrick R.
In: Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol. 47, No. 4, 04.2009, p. 1229-1230.

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