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Mobile phones and computer keyboards: unlikely reservoirs of multidrug-resistant organisms in the tertiary intensive care unit.

The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jul 2018

Smibert O C, Aung A K, Woolnough E, Carter G P, Schultz M B, Howden B P, Seemann T, Spelman D, McGloughlin S, Peleg A Y

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Few studies have used molecular epidemiological methods to study transmission links to clinical isolates in intensive care units. Ninety-four multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) cultured from routine specimens from intensive care unit (ICU) patients over 13 weeks were stored (11 meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), two vancomycin-resistant enterococci and 81 Gram-negative bacteria). Medical staff...

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PMID: 29501730
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2018.02.013

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