Rapid environmental contamination of a new nursing home with antimicrobial-resistant organisms preceding occupation by residents.
Nursing homes are reservoirs for antimicrobial-resistant organisms (AROs). This study examined the time to environmental contamination with AROs in a new-build nursing home. Environmental sites in an occupied nursing home (N = 18) and a newly built replacement nursing home (N = 21) were monitored during an 11-week period before and after residents transferred between buildings. Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was detected during commissioning in the new building and was a frequent finding throughout the building after residents had moved in. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing E. coli O25b:ST131 was detected once.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Ecology (ARME) Group, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland. c.ludden2@nuigalway.ie
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D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009735:Nursing Homes