Mobile phones and computer keyboards: unlikely reservoirs of multidrug-resistant organisms in the tertiary intensive care unit
Journal of Hospital Infection, ISSN: 0195-6701, Vol: 99, Issue: 3, Page: 295-298
2018
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- 80Captures
- 6Mentions
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Article Description
Few studies have used molecular epidemiological methods to study transmission links to clinical isolates in intensive care units. Ninety-four multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) cultured from routine specimens from intensive care unit (ICU) patients over 13 weeks were stored (11 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), two vancomycin-resistant enterococci and 81 Gram-negative bacteria). Medical staff personal mobile phones, departmental phones, and ICU keyboards were swabbed and cultured for MDROs; MRSA was isolated from two phones. Environmental and patient isolates of the same genus were selected for whole genome sequencing. On whole genome sequencing, the mobile phone isolates had a pairwise single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) distance of 183. However, >15,000 core genome SNPs separated the mobile phone and clinical isolates. In a low-endemic setting, mobile phones and keyboards appear unlikely to contribute to hospital-acquired MDROs.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195670118301063; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2018.02.013; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85044286864&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29501730; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195670118301063; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2018.02.013
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