Contamination of environmental surfaces by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in rooms of inpatients with MRSA-positive body sites

ABSTRACT Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can contaminate environmental surfaces that are frequently touched by the hands of patients with MRSA colonization/infection. There have been many studies in which the presence or absence of MRSA contamination was determined but no studies...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: E. Jessica Ohashi Kurashige, Shigeharu Oie, H. Furukawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000300703&lng=en&tlng=en