New technology for detecting multidrug-resistant pathogens in the clinical microbiology laboratory.

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Peterson, L. R. ; Noskin, G. A.
• Description:
  Northwestern Memorial Hospital instituted in-house molecular typing to rapidly assess microbial clonality and integrated this typing into an infection control program. We compared data on nosocomial infections collected during 24 months before and 60 months after implementing the new program. During the intervention period, infections per 1,000 patient-days fell 13% (p=0.002) and the percentage of hospitalized patients with nosocomial infections decreased 23% (p=0.000006). In our hospital, the percentage of patients with nosocomial infections is 43% below the U.S. rate. Our typing laboratory costs approximately $400,000 per year, a savings of $5.00 for each dollar spent.
• Subjects:
  Clinical Laboratory Techniques Communicable Diseases Cross Infection Drug Resistance, Multiple Humans
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 7(2):306-311.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:73aa22c15a0d351950ec5f8ba82f91a9bb65944f783de0e7aa7cfad1ef5c2636
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15103/cdc_15103_DS1.pdf
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