Rupak Datta, MPH; Richard Platt, MD, MS; Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH; Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH

Background    Admission to intensive care unit rooms previously occupied by carriers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enteroccoci (VRE) had been found to confer a 40% increased risk of acquisition, presumably through environmental contamination. Subsequently, a cleaning intervention was shown to reduce MRSA …