Recurrence of skin disease in a nursery: ineffectuality of hexachlorophene bathing
Gehlbach, S.H.; Gutman, L.T.; Wilfert, C.M.; Brumley, G.W.; Katz, S.L.
Pediatrics 55(3): 422-424
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005 PMID: 1143981 Document Number: 92558
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.