Infection prevention versus antimicrobial stewardship: Does nasal povidone-iodine interfere with met...
Infection prevention versus antimicrobial stewardship: Does nasal povidone-iodine interfere with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening?
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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
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To combat this situation, intranasal MRSA screening has been suggested as a stewardship tool because the absence of MRSA in the nares has been found to have a high negative predictive value for MRSA pneumonia.3 Universal decolonization by applying chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) to skin and mupirocin to the nares has been shown in large multicenter s...
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Infection prevention versus antimicrobial stewardship: Does nasal povidone-iodine interfere with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening?
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2612773630
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2612773630
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0899-823X
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1559-6834
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10.1017/ice.2021.152
