PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 3 March 1975, pp. 422-424
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Recurrence of Skin Disease in a Nursery: Ineffectuality of Hexachlorophene Bathing

S. H. Gehlbach M.D.1, L. T. Gutman M.D.1, C. M. Wilfert M.D.1, G. W. Brumley M.D.1, and S. L. Katz M.D.1

1 Duke University School of Medicine, Durham

An outbreak of streptococcal and staphylococcal skin disease was discovered in a full-term nursery after the discontinuation of bathing infants with hexachlorophene. The epidemic was only temporarily controlled by conventional means and recurred despite reinstitution of hexachlorophene bathing. Measures that decreased infants' exposure to visitors and hospital personnel and enforced aseptic techniques in the nursery were more important than use of hexachlorophene soap in achieving and maintaining control.

Submitted on January 15, 1974
Accepted on May 7, 1974




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