Multicenter Study of Hand Carriage of Potential Pathogens by Neonatal ICU Healthcare Personnel. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A multicenter surveillance study was performed to determine the rates of hand carriage of potential pathogens among healthcare personnel in four neonatal intensive care units. Staphylococcus aureus, enterococci, and gram-negative bacilli were recovered from 8%, 3%, and 2% of 1000 hand culture samples, respectively.

publication date

  • March 30, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Enterococcus
  • Gram-Negative Bacteria
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Personnel, Hospital
  • Staphylococcal Infections

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4554199

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85006224180

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/jpids/piu022

PubMed ID

  • 26336605

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 4

issue

  • 3