Epidemiology and risk factors of catheter-associated bloodstream infections among intensive care unit patients: an experience from a tertiary care hospital in Thailand.

twice daily and body washes with 4% chlorhexidine gluconate soap solution for five days.6 Four of these five patients underwent a successful process of MRSA decontamination with nasal mupirocin and body washing with chlorhexidine. The fifth patient could not be assessed due to early death. Only one patient remained VRE-colonised and no deaths were related to the outbreak. Overall, the estimated direct financial cost of this outbreak was V207,000, mainly linked to the loss of income due to temporary restriction of admissions, as a result of restriction of transfers. In our elderly populationwith a high duration of hospitalisation, the decontamination measure may have played a role in the rapid control of the outbreak and helped to reduce the number of days of restricted admission.