Value of Whole-Body Washing With Chlorhexidine for the Eradication of Methicillin-Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus:</i>A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial

Abstract

Whole-body washing can reduce skin colonization, but it appears necessary to extend eradication measures to the gastrointestinal tract, wounds, and/or other colonized body sites if complete eradication is the goal.