Fig. 2: Changes in MDRO colonization status from baseline visit to discharge (last study visit).

Orange boxes indicate participants colonized with an MDRO, blue boxes indicate participants not colonized with an MDRO. Numbers in each box indicate the number of participants with a given colonization status at study baseline or discharge. For example, 47 participants who had multiple in-room visits were colonized with VRE at baseline. Of those, 27 (57.5%) remained colonized at discharge. The remaining 20 (42.5%) did not have detectable colonization at discharge. Alternatively, 135 participants who had multiple in-room visits were not colonized with VRE at baseline. Of those, 19 (14.1%) acquired VRE during their NH stay, while 116 (85.9%) remained not colonized with VRE. Source data are provided for this figure. Abbreviations: MDRO, multidrug-resistant organism; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; NH, nursing home; RGNB, resistant gram-negative bacilli; VRE, vancomycin-resistant enterococci.