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

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.

published proceedings

  • Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Villamaria, F. C., Berlanga, G., Liao, I., Ganachari-Mallappa, N., Stock, E. M., Zeber, J. E., & Jinadatha, C.

citation count

  • 5

publication date

  • January 2015