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Editorial Commentary: For Nosocomial Vancomycin‐Resistant Enterococcal Infections: The Ounce of Prevention or the Pound of Cure?

“…By contrast, a hospital where the intervention was used to control spread throughout the hospital documented a much greater reduction in the prevalence of VRE in its ICUs [21]. The ICU with the highest prevalence (100%) observed a reduction to a 0% prevalence that remained at this low level for the next year using this approach, despite the lack of an antibiotic-control program during that time [22]. If high rates had been allowed to persist in other parts of the hospital, this would not have been possible.…”