Journal article
A prospective study to examine the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile contamination in the general environment of three community hospitals in southern Ontario, Canada
Abstract
BackgroundThe hospital environment has been suggested as playing an important role in the transmission of hospital-associated (HA) pathogens. However, studies investigating the contamination of the hospital environment with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Clostridium difficile have generally focused on point prevalence studies of only a single pathogen. Research evaluating the roles of these two pathogens, concurrently, in …
Authors
Faires MC; Pearl DL; Ciccotelli WA; Straus K; Zinken G; Berke O; Reid-Smith RJ; Weese JS
Journal
BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol. 12, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2012
DOI
10.1186/1471-2334-12-290
ISSN
1471-2334