Epidemiology of Enterococci in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 374-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Duchon ◽  
Philip Graham ◽  
Phyllis Della-Latta ◽  
Susan Whittier ◽  
Diane Carp ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Culture Result ◽  
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci ◽  
Single Culture ◽  
Clinical Culture ◽  
Vancomycin Resistant ◽  
Culture Positive

We performed an epidemiological investigation of a 62-bed neonatal intensive care unit in response to 2 infants with clinical cultures positive for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Surveillance cultures detected 11 infants colonized with VRE. Surveillance triggered by even a single clinical culture positive for VRE may be justified in the neonatal intensive care unit, because a single culture result may represent a large hidden reservoir of VRE-colonized infants.

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