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Universal Patient Disinfection as a Tool for Infection Control
Rub-A-Dub-Dub, No Need for a Tub
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:274-276.
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The management of emerging and reemerging infections in today's health care practice is daunting, to say the least. We are all aware of the seemingly constant recognition of new diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome–associated coronavirus1 and avian influenza,2 as well as the introduction of new faces on old pathogens, exemplified by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii3 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa4 and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).5 The spread of these and other infectious diseases is the result of 3 interrelated factors: the relationship(s) between microorganisms, their hosts, and the environment.6 Critical tools for management of health care–associated infections are comprehensive infection-control practices that are often insufficiently followed.7 In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Vernon and colleagues8 evaluate a novel intervention with the focus on interrupting the host as a reservoir for contamination of the environment and health care workers to halt the spread of multidrug-resistant microorganisms. These investigators, working . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Lance R. Peterson, MD;
Kamaljit Singh, MD
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Michael O. Vernon, Mary K. Hayden, William E. Trick, Robert A. Hayes, Donald W. Blom, Robert A. Weinstein, and for the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance Project (CARP)
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(3):306-312.
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