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Fig. 2

From: Using adenosine triphosphate bioluminescence level monitoring to identify bacterial reservoirs during two consecutive Enterococcus faecium and Staphylococcus capitis nosocomial infection outbreaks at a neonatal intensive care unit

Fig. 2

Timeline of the outbreak and intervention measures carried out. The outbreak was recognized on day 13, and intervention measures were applied after recognition. The first intervention consisted of increasing the frequency of environmental disinfection from once daily (every 24 h) to three times a day (every 8 h), the second intervention was to change the type of disinfectant from Biospot® to Clinell® and Safecide®. The final intervention consisted of changing keyboards and mice to disinfectable ones and education of the HCWs on hand hygiene based on the PFGE typing results. HCW health care worker; PFGE pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

ISSN: 2047-2994

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