Effects of universal versus targeted chlorhexidine skin decolonisation on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in intensive care: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study

Ijeoma Okoliegbe; Sara Sharaf; Susanth Alapati; Deon Roos; Antonio Ribeiro; Istifanus Nkene; Daniele Ghezzi; Stuart J. Reid; Victoria Austin; D Ayansina; Rebecca Wilson; Tanzeel Rehman; Benjamin J. Parcell; Ian Mellor; Charis Marwick; Marco R. Oggioni; Karolin Hijazi

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Effects of universal versus targeted chlorhexidine skin decolonisation on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in intensive care: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study

Ijeoma Okoliegbe
, Sara Sharaf
, Susanth Alapati
, Deon Roos
, Antonio Ribeiro
, Istifanus Nkene
, Daniele Ghezzi
, Stuart J. Reid
, Victoria Austin
, D Ayansina
, Rebecca Wilson
, Tanzeel Rehman
, Benjamin J. Parcell
, Ian Mellor
, Charis Marwick
, Marco R. Oggioni
, Karolin Hijazi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Medicine

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DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4910337
Publication status	Published - 13 Aug 2024

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Universal versus targeted chlorhexidine and mupirocin decolonisation and clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in patients in intensive care in Scotland, UK: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study
Sharaf, S., Lawes, T., Roos, D., Okoliegbe, I., Alapati, S., Ribeiro, A., Nkene, I., Ghezzi, D., Reid, S. J., Austin, V., Ayansina, D., Wilson, B., Rehman, T., Parcell, B. J., Mellor, I., Marwick, C. A., Oggioni, M. & Hijazi, K., Aug 2025, In: The Lancet Microbe. 6, 8, p. 1-13 13 p., 101118.
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Okoliegbe, I., Sharaf, S., Alapati, S., Roos, D., Ribeiro, A., Nkene, I., Ghezzi, D., Reid, S. J., Austin, V., Ayansina, D., Wilson, R., Rehman, T., Parcell, B. J., Mellor, I., Marwick, C., Oggioni, M. R., & Hijazi, K. (2024). Effects of universal versus targeted chlorhexidine skin decolonisation on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in intensive care: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4910337

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Effects of universal versus targeted chlorhexidine skin decolonisation on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in intensive care: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study

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Universal versus targeted chlorhexidine and mupirocin decolonisation and clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis bloodstream infections in patients in intensive care in Scotland, UK: a controlled time-series and longitudinal genotypic study

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