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
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2012
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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. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 1 | 33% |
Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 3 | 5% |
Brazil | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 60 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 11 | 17% |
Student > Master | 9 | 14% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
Professor | 4 | 6% |
Other | 13 | 20% |
Unknown | 15 | 23% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 23% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 17% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 11% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 6% |
Chemistry | 2 | 3% |
Other | 7 | 11% |
Unknown | 18 | 28% |