What is the best method? Recovery of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from inanimate hospital surfaces

Tânia Claro; Sandra Galvin; Orla Cahill; Deirdre Fitzgerald-Hughes; Stephen Daniels; Hilary Humphreys

doi:10.1086/676858

What is the best method? Recovery of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from inanimate hospital surfaces

Tânia Claro
, Sandra Galvin
, Orla Cahill
, Deirdre Fitzgerald-Hughes
, Stephen Daniels
, Hilary Humphreys

Beaumont Hospital
Dublin City University

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Abstract

Environmental sampling in hospitals, when required, needs to be reliable. We evaluated different methods of sampling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended-spectrum b-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli on 5 materials of the hospital setting. Petrifilms and contact plates were superior to swabs for all of the surfaces studied.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	869-871
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	35
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/676858
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

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