Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Autor: Cairo, Romilda Castro de Andrade, Silva, Luciana Rodrigues, Andrade, Carol Ferreira de, Barberino, Maria Goreth Matos de Andrade, Bandeira, Antonio Carlos de Albuquerque, Santos, Kleber Pimentel, Santos, Daniel Rui Diniz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Repositório Institucional da UFBA
Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
instacron:UFBA
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702008000300011
Popis: p. 217-221 Submitted by JURANDI DE SOUZA SILVA (jssufba@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-14T11:55:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 __www.scielo.br_pdf_bjid_v12n3_a11v12n3.pdf: 120355 bytes, checksum: 08a5a962cd7b42e97ad49e2379136144 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-14T11:55:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 __www.scielo.br_pdf_bjid_v12n3_a11v12n3.pdf: 120355 bytes, checksum: 08a5a962cd7b42e97ad49e2379136144 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Milk may represent an important source of infectious agents to hospitalized pediatric patients. To describe the bacterial microflora isolated from the hands, stools, pharynx of all workers at milk kitchens in pediatric hospitals in the city of Salvador, Brazil, as well as in the formulas prepared by them, we carried out this cross-sectional study with all 91 workers from the 20 milk kitchens of all the public and private hospitals in Salvador, Brazil. Hand and pharynx swabs and stool samples were collected from all workers, as well as samples of the milk and formulas delivered by the kitchens. All samples were cultured for the detection of pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. Pathogenic bacteria were isolated from 20 (22.0%) and 8 (8.8%) cultures of the hands and pharynx of the workers, respectively. No pathogenic bacteria were isolated from stool samples. Pathogenic bacteria were isolated from 17 (18.7%) milk samples. The prevalence of pathogenic bacteria in hand swabs was significantly higher in workers from public (37.8%) than from private (6.5%) hospitals (prevalence ratio [PR]=5.8; p
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