Breaking away from an endemic state of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by daily sink disinfection

Autor: Sumio Iwasaki, Rikako Sato, Keisuke Kagami, Kouji Akizawa, Kasumi Hayasaka, Tatsuya Fukumoto, Keisuke Taki, Yusuke Niinuma, Takehiro Yamada, Reiko Oyamada, Tsubasa Watanabe, Sho Nakakubo, Chiaki Watanabe, Takanori Teshima, Nobuhisa Ishiguro
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, Vol 3 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2732-494X
DOI: 10.1017/ash.2023.484
Popis: The detection rate of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients admitted to 2 wards and the intensive care unit decreased from 20.3% (129 of 636 isolates) to 4.2% (37 of 889 isolates) after the start of disinfection of hand washing sinks using alkyl diaminoethylglycine hydrochloride.
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