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| Title |
High-level tolerance to triclosan may play a role in Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiotic resistance in immunocompromised hosts: evidence from outbreak investigation
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-43 |
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| Authors |
Silvia D'Arezzo, Simone Lanini, Vincenzo Puro, Giuseppe Ippolito, Paolo Visca |
| Abstract |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major infectious threat to immunocompromised patients. We recently reported a fatal epidemic of multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa in an onchoematology unit, linked to massive contamination of a triclosan-based disinfectant. The aim of this study is to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of triclosan and chlorhexidine digluconate against the epidemic strain of P. aeruginosa, to confirm the hypothesis that the soap dispenser acted as a continuous source of the infection during the outbreak, and to explore the potential role of triclosan in increasing the level of resistance to selected antibiotics.Susceptibility tests and time-kill assays for disinfectans were performed using two commercial formulations containing triclosan and chlorhexidine digluconate, respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by the broth microdilution method. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 18 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 22% |
| Russia | 3 | 17% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 9 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 40 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 17% |
| Researcher | 6 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 12% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 12% |
| Unknown | 6 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 24% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 12% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 20% |
| Unknown | 8 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 25 March 2015.
All research outputs
#2,454,701
of 25,809,966 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#306
of 4,537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,035
of 254,256 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#5
of 81 outputs
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