Hospital bath basins are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant human pathogens

Dror Marchaim; Alexis R. Taylor; Kayoko Hayakawa; Suchitha Bheemreddy; Bharath Sunkara; Judy Moshos; Teena Chopra; Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco; Emily T. Martin; Jason M. Pogue; Paul R. Lephart; Sanjeet Panda; Sorabh Dhar; Keith S. Kaye

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2011.07.014

Hospital bath basins are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant human pathogens

Dror Marchaim^*, Alexis R. Taylor, Kayoko Hayakawa, Suchitha Bheemreddy, Bharath Sunkara, Judy Moshos, Teena Chopra, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Emily T. Martin, Jason M. Pogue, Paul R. Lephart, Sanjeet Panda, Sorabh Dhar, Keith S. Kaye

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Abstract

The hospital environment is increasingly recognized as a reservoir for hospital-acquired pathogens. During a 44-month study period, a total of 1,103 basins from 88 hospitals in the United States and Canada were sampled. Overall, 62.2% of the basins (at least 1 basin at each hospital) were contaminated with commonly encountered hospital-acquired pathogens.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	562-564
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	40
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2011.07.014
State	Published - Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

HAI
Hospital-acquired infection
MDR
MDRO
Nosocomial

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Marchaim, D., Taylor, A. R., Hayakawa, K., Bheemreddy, S., Sunkara, B., Moshos, J., Chopra, T., Abreu-Lanfranco, O., Martin, E. T., Pogue, J. M., Lephart, P. R., Panda, S., Dhar, S., & Kaye, K. S. (2012). Hospital bath basins are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant human pathogens. American Journal of Infection Control, 40(6), 562-564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2011.07.014

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