Infection Risk Reduction Program on Pathogens in High School and Collegiate Athletic Training Rooms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Athletic training rooms have a high prevalence of bacteria, including multidrug-resistant organisms, increasing the risk for both local and systematic infections in athletes. There are limited data outlining formal protocols or standardized programs to reduce bacterial and viral burden in training rooms as a means of decreasing infection rate at the collegiate and high school levels.

Hypothesis

Adaptation of a hygiene protocol would lead to a reduction in bacterial and viral pathogen counts in athletic training rooms.

Study design

Cohort study.

Level of evidence

Level 3.

Methods

Two high school and 2 collegiate athletic training rooms were studied over the course of the 2017-2018 academic year. A 3-phase protocol, including introduction of dis

SUBMITTER: LaBelle MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6931117 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature