Chlorhexidine gluconate bathing reduces the incidence of bloodstream infections in adults undergoing inpatient hematopoietic cell transplantation

BACKGROUND: Bloodstream infections (BSIs) occur in 20-45% of inpatient autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) patients. Daily bathing with the antiseptic chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) has been shown to reduce the incidence of BSIs in critically ill patients although very few s...

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Published in:Transplant Cell Ther
Main Authors: Giri, Vinay K., Kegerreis, Kristin G., Ren, Yi, Bohannon, Lauren M., Lobaugh-Jin, Erica, Messina, Julia A., Matthews, Anita, Mowery, Yvonne M., Sito, Elizabeth, Lassiter, Martha, Saullo, Jennifer L., Jung, Sin-Ho, Ma, Li, Greenberg, Morris, Andermann, Tessa M., van den Brink, Marcel R.M., Peled, Jonathan U., Gomes, Antonio L.C., Choi, Taewoong, Gasparetto, Cristina J., Horwitz, Mitchell E., Long, Gwynn D., Lopez, Richard D., Rizzieri, David A., Sarantopoulos, Stefanie, Chao, Nelson J., Allen, Deborah H., Sung, Anthony D.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010223/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781532
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtct.2021.01.004
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