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Poor survival of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on inanimate objects in the public spaces.
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- How long do bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses retain their replication capacity on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review examining environmental resilience versus healthcare-associated infection risk by "fomite-borne risk assessment".Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Desiccation tolerance as a driver of environmental persistence and transmission in nosocomial bacterial pathogens.Infection and immunity · 2026Review
- Assessing the public health risk from ESKAPE pathogens including MRSA and VRE on high-touch shopping cart surfaces.AIMS public health · 2026Review
- Asymptomatic carriage and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus in pre-clinical and clinical medical students.Folia microbiologica · 2025Article
- Pathogenic bacterial profile, associated factors, and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in intra-city public transport in Harar City, Eastern Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Effective degradation of various bacterial toxins using ozone ultrafine bubble water.PloS one · 2024Article
- High Bacterial Contamination Load of Self-Service Facilities in Sakaka City, Aljouf, Saudi Arabia, with Reduced Sensitivity to Some Antimicrobials.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Occurrence of antimicrobial-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Brazilian veterinary hospital environment.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2023Article
- Inanimate Surfaces as a Source of Hospital Infections Caused by Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses with Particular Emphasis on SARS-CoV-2.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- 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
- Evaluation of Methods for Sampling of Staphylococcus aureus and Other Staphylococcus Species from Indoor Surfaces.Annals of work exposures and health · 2020Article
- Poor survival of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on inanimate objects in the public spaces.MicrobiologyOpen · 2016Article
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Abstract
We investigated the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus on shopping baskets in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Multilocus sequence typing was performed to determine the genotypes of S. aureus isolates, and then a polymerase chain reaction method was used to detect staphylococcal enterotoxins and antibiotic resistance genes. In addition, desiccation tolerance of S. aureus isolates was evaluated in vitro. Forty-six (6.2%) S. aureus isolates were collected from 740 shopping baskets, though only one MRSA strain was identified. In multilocus sequence typing findings, ten sequence types and 24 singletons were classified, which were divided into ten clonal complexes and six singletons. The most frequent staphylococcal enterotoxin gene was seg (30.4%). Our in vitro findings demonstrated that 70% of the S. aureus isolates, including the MRSA strain, became undetectable at 12 h after desiccation at an appropriate cell density, while the others remained viable for up to 24 h. Thus, it is difficult for MRSA organisms to survive on dry surfaces found in public areas. We speculated that inanimate objects in the community are unlikely to be a potential source for transmission of MRSA and that S. aureus on such objects outside of hospital settings is not a public health threat.
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