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A prospective study to examine the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals in…

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2012
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Title
A prospective study to examine the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals in southern Ontario, Canada
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-12-290
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Authors

Meredith C Faires, David L Pearl, William A Ciccotelli, Karen Straus, Giovanna Zinken, Olaf Berke, Richard J Reid-Smith, J Scott Weese

Abstract

The hospital environment has been suggested as playing an important role in the transmission of hospital-associated (HA) pathogens. However, studies investigating the contamination of the hospital environment with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Clostridium difficile have generally focused on point prevalence studies of only a single pathogen. Research evaluating the roles of these two pathogens, concurrently, in the general hospital environment has not been conducted. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence and identify risk factors associated with MRSA and C. difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals, prospectively.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 3 5%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 59 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 17%
Student > Master 9 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Professor 4 6%
Other 13 21%
Unknown 14 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 6%
Chemistry 2 3%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 17 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2014.
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#14,155,634
of 22,685,926 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,744
of 7,643 outputs
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#105,905
of 183,504 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#50
of 150 outputs
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