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. 2023 Mar;44(3):497-500.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.524. Epub 2022 Jan 31.

Carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in infants following an outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit: time to clearance of carriage and use of molecular methods to detect colonization

Vered Schechner #  1   2   3 , Jonathan Lellouche #  3   4 , Sarit Stepansky  1 , Dror Mandel  2   5 , Galia Grisaru-Soen  2   6 , Liat Wullfhart  3 , David Schwartz  3 , Yehuda Carmeli  1   2   3
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Carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in infants following an outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit: time to clearance of carriage and use of molecular methods to detect colonization

Vered Schechner et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Mar.

Abstract

Among 46 infants colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit, the estimated time until half had achieved clearance was 217 days. All 40 infants who completed follow-up cleared carriage by 1 year. No predictors of prolonged carriage (> 6 months) were identified.

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Fig. 1.
Nonparametric maximun likelihood (NPMLE) of survival for the duration of VRE-fm carriage, based on culture and PCR tests. The gray boxes indicate the intervals during which VRE clearance was not tested. The grey lines are confidence intervals.
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