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 TeshimaNobuhisa IshiguroPublished 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
- gram negative
- cystic fibrosis
- biofilm formation
- genetic diversity
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- physical activity
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- real time pcr
- label free
- escherichia coli
- sensitive detection
- quantum dots