ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2013
Characteristics of antibiotic resistance of airborne Staphylococcus isolated from metro stations.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Detection of the ST111 Global High-RiskCurrent issues in molecular biology · 2025Article
- Isolation and assessment of antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in the air of an underground hard coal mines.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The composition of the bacterial communities collected from the PMScientific reports · 2024Article
- High Bacterial Contamination Load of Self-Service Facilities in Sakaka City, Aljouf, Saudi Arabia, with Reduced Sensitivity to Some Antimicrobials.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Shaping the subway microbiome through probiotic-based sanitation during the COVID-19 emergency: a pre-post case-control study.Microbiome · 2023Article
- The Bacterial Urban Resistome: Recent Advances.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Is Peracetic Acid Fumigation Effective in Public Transportation?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Surveillance and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from public settings within urban built environments: Challenges and opportunities for hygiene and infection control.Environment international · 2021Review
- Shared bicycle microbial community: a potential antibiotic-resistant bacteria warehouse.Folia microbiologica · 2021Article
- Contamination and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing ofVeterinary medicine international · 2021Article
- Environmental and Health Effects of Ventilation in Subway Stations: A Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Airborne Staphylococcus aureus in different environments-a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Review
- Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry to Identify Drug Resistant Staphylococcal Isolates from Nonhospital Environments in Brunei Darussalam.Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Metro system in Guangzhou as a hazardous reservoir of methicillin-resistant Staphylococci: findings from a point-prevalence molecular epidemiologic study.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Review and phylogenetic analysis of qac genes that reduce susceptibility to quaternary ammonium compounds in Staphylococcus species.European journal of microbiology & immunology · 2015Review
- Indoor-air microbiome in an urban subway network: diversity and dynamics.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
- Effect of ampicillin, streptomycin, penicillin and tetracycline on metal resistant and non-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study focused on the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a metro system as an example of a public transportation system. The molecular characteristics of Staphylococcus were investigated to discern which strains were isolated from metro stations in Shanghai. These were compared with strains isolated from hospital treatment rooms and parks. Airborne Staphylococcus samples in the metro were resistant to an average of 2.64 antibiotic types, and 58.0% of the strain samples were resistant to at least three antibiotics; this was a significantly higher rate than strains from the park, but was lower than those from hospitals. The presence of two antibiotic resistance genes of Staphylococcus strains, mecA (28.0%) and qac (40.0%), were also found at significantly higher levels in metro samples than park samples, but did not differ significantly from hospital samples. Furthermore, 22.0% of the metro Staphylococcus samples were found to be biofilm-positive. The high rate of antibiotic resistance found in Staphylococcus samples collected from metro stations, and the discovery of antibiotic-resistant genes, indicate that the closed indoor environment and crowded passengers may accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistant strains. More attention should be paid to the inspection and control of antibiotic resistant strains in public transportation systems.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.