Tracking sources of Staphylococcus aureus hand contamination in food handlers by spa typing

We aimed to identify the source of Staphylococcus aureus contaminating hands of food handlers. Nasal samples and direct fingertip imprints were collected on 2 occasions from food handlers and characterized to determine likely sources of hand contamination. Most hand contamination was attributable to...

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Autores principales: Ho, Jeffery, Boost, Maureen V., O'Donoghue, Margaret M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25997877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.03.022
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description We aimed to identify the source of Staphylococcus aureus contaminating hands of food handlers. Nasal samples and direct fingertip imprints were collected on 2 occasions from food handlers and characterized to determine likely sources of hand contamination. Most hand contamination was attributable to nasal isolates of persistently colonized coworkers who had presumably contaminated the environment. Regular handwashing should be supplemented by effective environmental disinfection.
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spelling pubmed-71153202020-04-02 Tracking sources of Staphylococcus aureus hand contamination in food handlers by spa typing Ho, Jeffery Boost, Maureen V. O'Donoghue, Margaret M. Am J Infect Control Article We aimed to identify the source of Staphylococcus aureus contaminating hands of food handlers. Nasal samples and direct fingertip imprints were collected on 2 occasions from food handlers and characterized to determine likely sources of hand contamination. Most hand contamination was attributable to nasal isolates of persistently colonized coworkers who had presumably contaminated the environment. Regular handwashing should be supplemented by effective environmental disinfection. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015-07-01 2015-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7115320/ /pubmed/25997877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.03.022 Text en Copyright © 2015 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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