ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2019
Bacterial colonization of handheld devices in a tertiary care setting: a hygiene intervention study.
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- Decline of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteraemia following the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal observational study.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2025Observational
- Informed interpretation of metagenomic data by StrainPhlAn enables strain retention analyses of the upper airway microbiome.mSystems · 2023Article
- Bacterial but no SARS-CoV-2 contamination after terminal disinfection of tertiary care intensive care units treating COVID-19 patients.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2021Article
- Antibiotic resistance and persistence-Implications for human health and treatment perspectives.EMBO reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
Background: Tablet computers are increasingly being used in hospital patient care and are often colonized with important human pathogens, while the impact of disinfection interventions remains controversial. Method: In a prospective hygiene intervention study we consecutively sampled tablet computers exclusively used in a high-resource general internal medicine tertiary care setting with high routine hygiene measures. Our aim was to examine the change in colonizing bacteria on tablet computers before and after the introduction of a mandatory twice daily tablet disinfection intervention. Microbial identification was performed by conventional culture, and the association of bacterial colonization with the intervention was investigated using logistic regression. Results: In a total of 168 samples we identified colonizing bacteria in 149 (89%) of samples. While the most commonly identified species were normal skin bacteria, Conclusion: Our results indicate that a twice daily disinfection can still substantially reduce bacterial colonization of in-hospital tablet computers used in a high-resource and high hygiene setting.
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