Environmental Contamination of Contact Precaution and Non-Contact Precaution Patient Rooms in Six Acute Care Facilities
Tanner WD, Leecaster MK, Zhang Y, Stratford KM, Mayer J, Visnovsky LD, Alhmidi H, Cadnum JL, Jencson AL, Koganti S, Bennett CP, Donskey CJ, Noble-Wang J, Reddy SC, Rose LJ, Watson L, Ide E, Wipperfurth T, Safdar N, Arasim M, Macke C, Roman P, Krein SL, Loc-Carrillo C, Samore MH. Environmental Contamination of Contact Precaution and Non-Contact Precaution Patient Rooms in Six Acute Care Facilities. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021, 72: s8-s16. PMID: 33512527, PMCID: PMC8785946, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1602.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) transmissionPatient roomsMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusAcute care facilitiesAcute care hospitalsCarbapenem-resistant EnterobacteriaceaeMDRO contaminationClostridioides difficile toxinsVancomycin-resistant enterococciContact precautionsCare hospitalPatient proximityTransplant unitAcute careIntensive careMDRO transmissionOrganism transmissionDifficile toxinMDRO carriageCare facilitiesNursing stationsMDROsSurveillance testsTransmission routesTerminal cleaning