Conventional infection control measures found effective in reduc...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Thu, 03/18/2010 - 22:00

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Scientists at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center found that an emphasis on compliance with non-pathogen specific infection control practices such as hand hygiene, efforts to reduce device-related infections and chlorhexidine bathing (a daily bath with the same antibacterial agent used by surgeons to "scrub in" before an operation), is successful in reducing rates of health-care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

The findings were presented today at the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections.

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