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Are contact isolation precautions (CP) necessary when caring for patients infected or colonized with endemic MRSA or VRE?

blog.unmc.edu August 25, 2017

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Researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases and Nebraska Medicine Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology recently published results from a two-year observational study indicating that routine use of contact isolation precautions (CP) are not needed in caring for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE).

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