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In this study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Duckro and colleagues carried out a careful molecular epidemiologic study of the transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) to the hands of health care workers from both intact skin areas of VRE-colonizes patients and various environ mental surfaces in the patient’s vicinity.

Health Care Workers’ Hands Spread VRE

In this study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Duckro and colleagues carried out a careful molecular epidemiologic study of the transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) to the hands of health care workers from both intact skin areas of VRE-colonizes patients and various environ mental surfaces in the patients vicinity.