Surveillance cultures are in place to monitor infections implicated in cooling towers or hot water sources.Health care professionals are interested in limiting outbreaks with which organism in water supplies?

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Certain surveillance cultures are still performed as a method of limiting outbreaks.These include culturing cooling towers or hot water sources for Legionella spp.; culture of water and dialysis fluids for hemodialysis, as well as endotoxin testing; culture of blood bank products, especially platelets; and surveillance cultures for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), methicillin- or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomycin-resistant S.aureus (VRSA)using rectal and oropharyngeal swabs.

Surveillance Cultures Are in Place to Monitor Infections Implicated in Cooling