Air and surface contamination patterns of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on eightacute hospital wards

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 201-208

  Creamer, E ^a   Shore, A C ^b,c   Deasy, E C ^b   Galvin, S ^a   Dolan, A ^a   Walley, N ^a   McHugh, S ^a   Fitzgerald Hughes, D ^a   Sullivan, D J ^b   Cunney, R ^d,e   Coleman, D C ^c   Humphreys, H ^a,f  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^e CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^f BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Cross transmission; DNA microarray profiling; Environmental sampling; Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Spa typing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SURFACE CONTAMINATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WARD;

AIR SAMPLING; CROSS-TRANSMISSION; DNA MICROARRAY PROFILING; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; METICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SPA TYPING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84895882012     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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