Computer keyboards and faucet handles as reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens in the intensive care unit

摘要

The colonization rate for keyboards and faucet handles, novel and unrecognized fomites, is greater than that of other well-studied ICU surfaces in rooms with patients positive for MRSA. Our findings suggest an associated pattern of environmental contamination and patient Infection, not limited to the patient's room. Pulsed-field gel elecrophoresis results have documented an indistinguishable strain of MRSA present as An environmental contaminant on these two fomites and in two patients with clinical infections patients during the same period.