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Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading
In the healthcare environment, microorganisms’ cross-transmission between inanimate surfaces and patients or healthcare workers can lead to healthcare-associated infections. A recent interest has grown to create antimicrobial copper touch surfaces, in order to counteract microbial spread in the heal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6317222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30563265 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11122479 |
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author | Colin, Marius Klingelschmitt, Flora Charpentier, Emilie Josse, Jérôme Kanagaratnam, Lukshe De Champs, Christophe Gangloff, Sophie C. |
author_facet | Colin, Marius Klingelschmitt, Flora Charpentier, Emilie Josse, Jérôme Kanagaratnam, Lukshe De Champs, Christophe Gangloff, Sophie C. |
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description | In the healthcare environment, microorganisms’ cross-transmission between inanimate surfaces and patients or healthcare workers can lead to healthcare-associated infections. A recent interest has grown to create antimicrobial copper touch surfaces, in order to counteract microbial spread in the healthcare environment. For the first time, five French long-term care facilities were at 50% fitted with copper alloys door handles and handrails. Related to the environmental bacterial contamination, 1400 samples were carried out on copper and control surfaces over three years after copper installation. In addition, some copper door handles were taken from the different facilities, and their specific activity against methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) was tested in vitro. In comparison to control surfaces, copper door handles and handrails revealed significantly lower contamination levels. This difference was observed in the five long-term care facilities and it persists through the three years of the study. High and extreme levels of bacterial contamination were less frequent on copper surfaces. Although, the antibacterial activity of copper surfaces against MRSA was lowered after three years of regular use, it was still significant as compared to inert control surfaces. Therefore, copper containing surfaces are promising actors in the non-spreading of environmental bacterial contamination in healthcare facilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-63172222019-01-08 Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading Colin, Marius Klingelschmitt, Flora Charpentier, Emilie Josse, Jérôme Kanagaratnam, Lukshe De Champs, Christophe Gangloff, Sophie C. Materials (Basel) Article In the healthcare environment, microorganisms’ cross-transmission between inanimate surfaces and patients or healthcare workers can lead to healthcare-associated infections. A recent interest has grown to create antimicrobial copper touch surfaces, in order to counteract microbial spread in the healthcare environment. For the first time, five French long-term care facilities were at 50% fitted with copper alloys door handles and handrails. Related to the environmental bacterial contamination, 1400 samples were carried out on copper and control surfaces over three years after copper installation. In addition, some copper door handles were taken from the different facilities, and their specific activity against methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) was tested in vitro. In comparison to control surfaces, copper door handles and handrails revealed significantly lower contamination levels. This difference was observed in the five long-term care facilities and it persists through the three years of the study. High and extreme levels of bacterial contamination were less frequent on copper surfaces. Although, the antibacterial activity of copper surfaces against MRSA was lowered after three years of regular use, it was still significant as compared to inert control surfaces. Therefore, copper containing surfaces are promising actors in the non-spreading of environmental bacterial contamination in healthcare facilities. MDPI 2018-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6317222/ /pubmed/30563265 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11122479 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Colin, Marius Klingelschmitt, Flora Charpentier, Emilie Josse, Jérôme Kanagaratnam, Lukshe De Champs, Christophe Gangloff, Sophie C. Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title | Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title_full | Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title_fullStr | Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title_full_unstemmed | Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title_short | Copper Alloy Touch Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities: An Effective Solution to Prevent Bacterial Spreading |
title_sort | copper alloy touch surfaces in healthcare facilities: an effective solution to prevent bacterial spreading |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6317222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30563265 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11122479 |
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