Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci Species Isolated From Computer Keyboards Located in Secondary and Postsecondary Schools.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a public health threat within the general community, thereby warranting identification of MRSA reservoirs within the community. Computer terminals in schools were sampled for S. aureus and methicillin-resistant staphylococci. The overall prevalen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Health Vol. 75; no. 6; pp. 50 - 59 |
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National Environmental Health Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=84447285&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 84447285 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00220892 EVH jtl: Journal of Environmental Health issn: 00220892 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan/Feb2013 vid: 75 iid: 6 pid: 1160 pub: National Environmental Health Association place: Denver, Colorado artinfo: ui: 84447285 84447285 104398669 84447285 ppf: 50 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci Species Isolated From Computer Keyboards Located in Secondary and Postsecondary Schools. aug: au: Boa, Tyler T. Rahube, Teddie O. Fremaux, Bastien Levett, Paul N. Yost, Christopher K. affil: University of Regina sug: subj: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Analysis Keyboards Evaluation Schools, Secondary Evaluation Human Saskatchewan Descriptive Statistics One-Way Analysis of Variance T-Tests P-Value Confidence Intervals ab: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a public health threat within the general community, thereby warranting identification of MRSA reservoirs within the community. Computer terminals in schools were sampled for S. aureus and methicillin-resistant staphylococci. The overall prevalence of MRSA on computer keyboards was low: 0.68% for a postsecondary institution and 2% and 0% for two secondary institutes. The MRSA isolate from the postsecondary institution did not correspond to the Canadian epidemic clusters, but is related to the USA 700 cluster, which contains strains implicated in outbreaks within the U.S. The isolate from the secondary institute's keyboard was typed as CMRSA7 (USA 400), a strain that has been implicated in both Canadian and U.S. epidemics. Methicillin-resistant S. haemolyticus and S. epidermidis were also isolated from keyboards, indicating that a mixed community of methicillinresistant staphylococci can be present on keyboards. Although the prevalence was low, the presence of MRSA combined with the high volume of traffic on these student computer terminals demonstrates the potential for publicaccess computer terminals and computer rooms at educational institutes to act as reservoirs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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