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Identification badge lanyards as infection control risk: a cross-sectional observation study with epidemiological analysis.

The Journal of hospital infection - 1 May 2017

Murphy C M, Di Ruscio F, Lynskey M, Collins J, McCullough E, Cosgrave R, McDonnell D, Fennell J

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Staphylococcus aureus cultures from name badge lanyards were phenotypically and genotypically indistinguishable from the wearer's nasal carrier strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and antibiogram. Lanyards had a mean age of 22 months and hygiene was poor with only 9% ever having been laundered. Molecular analysis showed that 26% of S. aureus nasal carriers shared an indistinguishable strain on their...

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PMID: 28215625
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2017.01.008

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