Multidrug-resistant Organisms in Hospitals: What Is on Patient Hands and in Their Rooms?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of healthcare personnel hand contamination in multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) transmission is important and well studied; however, the role of patient hand contamination needs to be characterized further.

Methods

Patients from 2 hospitals in southeast Michigan were recruited within 24 hours of arrival to their room and followed prospectively using microbial surveillance of nares, dominant hand, and 6 high-touch environmental surfaces. Sampling was performed on admission, days 3 and 7, and weekly until discharge. Paired samples of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from the patients' hand and room surfaces were evaluated for relatedness using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, and Pan

SUBMITTER: Mody L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853699 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature