When is it safe to stop contact precautions for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium carriage?

Carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in infants following an outbreak in the neonatal intensive care unit: time to clearance of carriage and use of molecular methods to detect colonization

“…However, 31 of 46 were still carriers at their first follow-up test, which is similar to other reports of >50% positivity 3-6 months after initial VRE detection. 10 Given these findings, we recommend testing colonized infants for VRE clearance beginning at 3 months after the first positive test.…”