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Comparison of Environmental MRSA Levels on High-Touch Surfaces in Contact Isolation and Noncontact Isolation Patient Rooms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2015

Frank C. Villamaria ,
Gemma Berlanga ,
I-Chia Liao ,
Nagaraja Ganachari-Mallappa ,
Eileen M. Stock ,
John E. Zeber  and
Chetan Jinadatha
Frank C. Villamaria
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas
Gemma Berlanga
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas Department of Medicine, Baylor Scott and White, Temple, Texas
I-Chia Liao
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas
Nagaraja Ganachari-Mallappa
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas
Eileen M. Stock
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Health Research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System with Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan, Texas
John E. Zeber
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas Center for Applied Health Research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System with Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan, Texas
Chetan Jinadatha*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan, Texas
*
Address correspondence to Chetan Jinadatha MD, MPH, 1901 South Veterans Drive, Temple TX, 76504 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Environmental samples were collected from 100 hospital rooms, 32 noncontact rooms, and 68 contact isolation rooms. We isolated 202 and 1,830 MRSA colonies in noncontact and contact isolation rooms, respectively. The study identified MRSA isolates in hospital rooms of patients without colonization or infection with MRSA.

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(12):1472–1475

Type
Research Brief
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 12 , December 2015 , pp. 1472 - 1475
Copyright
© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: Preliminary findings of this study were presented at ID Week 2014 as a poster presentation, October 07–12, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Xenex Healthcare Service did not participate in study design or in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data or in the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.

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