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Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms
Background: Colonization is the main precursor to infection, which may lead to adverse clinical outcomes among older adults in nursing homes (NHs). Understanding seasonal changes in the local burden of common bacterial pathogens is key to implementing appropriate and cost-effective infection prevent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.671428 |
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author | Cassone, Marco Mantey, Julia Gontjes, Kyle J. Lansing, Bonnie J. Gibson, Kristen E. Wang, Joyce Mody, Lona |
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description | Background: Colonization is the main precursor to infection, which may lead to adverse clinical outcomes among older adults in nursing homes (NHs). Understanding seasonal changes in the local burden of common bacterial pathogens is key to implementing appropriate and cost-effective infection prevention measures in this resource-constrained healthcare environment. It is thus surprising that seasonal trends in patient and environmental colonization with major bacterial pathogens are presently unknown in the expanding NH setting. Methods: We examined the seasonal incidence of four major pathogens among 640 nursing home patients and high-touch surfaces within their rooms over 2 years. In cases where a significant number of antimicrobial-resistant strains was found, incidence in antimicrobial-susceptible and antimicrobial-resistant isolates was compared, along with antibiotic use trends. Results: We observed spring peaks in the incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (1.70 peak to trough ratio for both patient and environmental isolates) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (1.95 peak to trough ratio for patient isolates, 1.50 for environmental isolates). We also observed summer peaks in Klebsiella pneumoniae (1.83 and 1.82 peak to trough ratio for patient and environmental isolates, respectively), and ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli. Susceptible S. aureus and E. coli did not follow seasonal patterns. Conclusions: A meaningful seasonal pattern may be present in the NH setting for several significant pathogens, and especially antimicrobial-resistant ones. Whether such patterns are consistent across geographic areas and over longer periods of time should be a key focus of investigation, in order to better inform timing of surveillance and infection prevention efforts in this setting. |
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spelling | pubmed-83113452021-07-27 Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms Cassone, Marco Mantey, Julia Gontjes, Kyle J. Lansing, Bonnie J. Gibson, Kristen E. Wang, Joyce Mody, Lona Front Public Health Public Health Background: Colonization is the main precursor to infection, which may lead to adverse clinical outcomes among older adults in nursing homes (NHs). Understanding seasonal changes in the local burden of common bacterial pathogens is key to implementing appropriate and cost-effective infection prevention measures in this resource-constrained healthcare environment. It is thus surprising that seasonal trends in patient and environmental colonization with major bacterial pathogens are presently unknown in the expanding NH setting. Methods: We examined the seasonal incidence of four major pathogens among 640 nursing home patients and high-touch surfaces within their rooms over 2 years. In cases where a significant number of antimicrobial-resistant strains was found, incidence in antimicrobial-susceptible and antimicrobial-resistant isolates was compared, along with antibiotic use trends. Results: We observed spring peaks in the incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (1.70 peak to trough ratio for both patient and environmental isolates) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (1.95 peak to trough ratio for patient isolates, 1.50 for environmental isolates). We also observed summer peaks in Klebsiella pneumoniae (1.83 and 1.82 peak to trough ratio for patient and environmental isolates, respectively), and ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli. Susceptible S. aureus and E. coli did not follow seasonal patterns. Conclusions: A meaningful seasonal pattern may be present in the NH setting for several significant pathogens, and especially antimicrobial-resistant ones. Whether such patterns are consistent across geographic areas and over longer periods of time should be a key focus of investigation, in order to better inform timing of surveillance and infection prevention efforts in this setting. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8311345/ /pubmed/34322470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.671428 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cassone, Mantey, Gontjes, Lansing, Gibson, Wang and Mody. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Cassone, Marco Mantey, Julia Gontjes, Kyle J. Lansing, Bonnie J. Gibson, Kristen E. Wang, Joyce Mody, Lona Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title | Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title_full | Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title_fullStr | Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title_full_unstemmed | Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title_short | Seasonal Patterns in Incidence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Common Bacterial Pathogens in Nursing Home Patients and Their Rooms |
title_sort | seasonal patterns in incidence and antimicrobial resistance of common bacterial pathogens in nursing home patients and their rooms |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.671428 |
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