Transfer of multidrug-resistant bacteria to healthcare workers' gloves and gowns after patient contact increases with environmental contamination.

Abstract

The contamination of healthcare workers' protective clothing during routine care of patients with multidrug-resistant organisms is most frequent with A. baumannii.

Environmental contamination was the major determinant of transmission to healthcare workers' gloves or gowns.

Compliance with contact precautions and more aggressive environmental cleaning may decrease transmission.

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Subjects

• Academic Medical Centers
• Acinetobacter Infections
• Acinetobacter baumannii
• Cross Infection
• Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
• Environmental Microbiology
• Gloves, Protective
• Health Personnel
• Humans
• Prospective Studies
• Protective Clothing
• Risk Factors

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Authors

• Daniel J Morgan
• Elizabeth Rogawski
• Kerri A Thom
• J Kristie Johnson
• Eli N Perencevich
• Michelle Shardell
• Surbhi Leekha
• Anthony D Harris

Publication date

2012-03-19

Journal

Journal topics

• Emergency Medical Services
• Intensive Care Units

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Critical care medicine

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. dmorgan [at] epi.umaryland.edu

Release reference

Crit Care Med. 2012 Apr;40(4):1045-51

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