A Metatranscriptomics Survey of Microbial Diversity on Surfaces Post-Intervention of cleanSURFACES® Technology in an Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT: Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) pose a serious threat to patients, and hospitals spend billions of dollars each year to reduce and treat these infections. Many HAIs are due to contamination from workers' hands and contact with high-touch surfaces. Therefore, we set out to test the efficacy of a new preventative technology, AIONX^® Antimicrobial Technologies, Inc's cleanSURFACES^®, which is designed to complement daily chemical cleaning events by continuously preventing re-colonization of surfaces. To that end, we swabbed surfaces before (Baseline) and after (Post) application of the cleanSURFACES^® at various time points (Day 1, Day 7, Day 14, and Day 28). To circumvent limitations associated with culture-based and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing methodo

SUBMITTER: Chen See J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330600 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature