Multicenter Study of Hand Carriage of Potential Pathogens by Neonatal ICU Healthcare Personnel
Yu-hui Ferng, Sarah A Clock, Jennifer Wong-Mcloughlin, Patricia A DeLaMora, Jeffrey M Perlman, Kelly S Gray, David A Paul, Priya A Prasad, Theoklis E Zaoutis, Luis R Alba, Susan Whittier, Elaine L Larson, Lisa Saiman, Yu-hui Ferng, Sarah A Clock, Jennifer Wong-Mcloughlin, Patricia A DeLaMora, Jeffrey M Perlman, Kelly S Gray, David A Paul, Priya A Prasad, Theoklis E Zaoutis, Luis R Alba, Susan Whittier, Elaine L Larson, Lisa Saiman
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.
Keywords: gram-negative bacilli; hand hygiene; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); nurses; physicians.
Source: PubMed