Epidemiology
Investigators at Channing Laboratory have published new data on epidemiology
Published in Lab Business Week, February 25th, 2007
New investigation results, "Improving the assessment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by routine screening," are detailed in a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. "As infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) increases in hospitals, knowledge about VRE reservoirs and improved accuracy of epidemiologic measures are needed. Many assessments underestimate incidence by including prevalent carriers in at-risk populations," researchers in the United States report.
"Routine surveillance cultures can substantially improve prevalence and incidence estimates, and assessing the range of improvement across diverse units is important. We performed a...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2007-02-25)
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