Vol.65 No.6 November 2017
The spread of different antibiotic resistant P. aeruginosa and A. baumanniivia healthcare environmental surfaces and the hands of health care workers at the Hangzhou City University Hospital in Zhejiang province, China
1)Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Faculty of Nursing, Toho University, 4-16-20 Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2)LSI Medience Corporation
3)Chinese Nursing Association
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between bacteria on healthcare environmental surfaces and the hands of health care workers at Hangzhou City University Hospital in Zhejiang province, China.
Multidrug-resistant organisms (Multi Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Multi Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii) were isolated from frequently touched surfaces of the ward environment and the hands of health care workers. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns of the environmental MDRA and Pre-MDRA (resistance to IPM and CPFX) isolates were similar to isolates from the hands of health care workers. In addition, it was confirmed that those isolates were also distributed in different ward environments. Two drug-resistant bacteria (P. aeruginosa to CPFX and AMK, and A. baumannii to IPM and CPFX) may become resistant to multidrug therapy through antimicrobial treatment and genetic exchange of resistant genes. Therefore, the performance of continuous susceptibility monitoring of these isolates is necessary.
Key word
MDRP, MDRA, China
Received
August 28, 2017
Accepted
September 27, 2017
Jpn. J. Chemother. 65 (6): 817-820, 2017
