Breaking away from an endemic state of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by daily sink disinfection.

Sumio IwasakiRikako SatoKeisuke KagamiKouji AkizawaKasumi HayasakaTatsuya FukumotoKeisuke TakiYusuke NiinumaTakehiro YamadaReiko OyamadaTsubasa WatanabeSho NakakuboChiaki WatanabeTakanori Teshima Nobuhisa Ishiguro

Published in: Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE (2023)

The detection rate of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients admitted to 2 wards and the intensive care unit decreased from 20.3% (129 of 636 isolates) to 4.2% (37 of 889 isolates) after the start of disinfection of hand washing sinks using alkyl diaminoethylglycine hydrochloride.

Keyphrases

multidrug resistant
pseudomonas aeruginosa
acinetobacter baumannii
drinking water
drug resistant
cystic fibrosis
gram negative
biofilm formation
genetic diversity
klebsiella pneumoniae
ionic liquid
loop mediated isothermal amplification
physical activity
label free
real time pcr
quantum dots
visible light