Using a combination of chemicals and UV light to clean patient rooms cut transmission of four major superbugs by a cumulative 30 percent according to a new study from Duke Medicine.
The study focused on those who stay overnight in a room where someone with a known positive culture or infection of a drug-resistant organism had previously been treated., according to an article on the Infection Control Today website.
The trial was conducted at nine hospitals in the Southeast from 2012 to 2014, including three Duke University Health System hospitals, a Veterans Affairs hospital, and several smaller community healthcare centers, the article said.
The study lokes at how three cleaning methods affected the transmission of four drug-resistant pathogens: MRSA, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), C. difficile and Acinetobacter.
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