Breaking away from an endemic state of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by daily sink disinfection
oleh: Sumio Iwasaki, Rikako Sato, Keisuke Kagami, Kouji Akizawa, Kasumi Hayasaka, Tatsuya Fukumoto, Keisuke Taki, Yusuke Niinuma, Takehiro Yamada, Reiko Oyamada, Tsubasa Watanabe, Sho Nakakubo, Chiaki Watanabe, Takanori Teshima, Nobuhisa Ishiguro
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| Diterbitkan: | Cambridge University Press 2023-01-01 |
Deskripsi
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.