Hospital surface contamination with antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative organisms in Tanzanian regional and tertiary hospitals: the need to improve environmental cleaning
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TextPublisher number: Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz Language: English Series: ; Journal of Hospital Infection Volume 102 Issue 1Publication details: Mwanza, Tanzania: Elsevier & Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] 2019/5/1Description: Pages 98-100Online resources: Summary: Further to Dr Weinbren’s informative article,‘The handwash station: friend or fiend?’[1] we would like to mention our previous letter regarding washing high-risk infants on neonatal intensive care units (NICUs)[2]. Washing such infants with tap water runs the risk of colonizing them with waterborne organisms. Furthermore, the use of small water collection pots for these infants can sample the initial tap water with the highest bacterial contamination [1]. Following an outbreak with an antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative organism (which was also found in sink taps), high-risk infants on an NICU were washed with sterile water from single-use bottles [3].(This is in accordance with the Department of Health advice that sterile or filtered water can be used for ‘top and tailing’neonates [4].) Infection control actions regarding the water supply and hand hygiene were taken together with use of sterile water for washing and there
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Further to Dr Weinbren’s informative article,‘The handwash station: friend or fiend?’[1] we would like to mention our previous letter regarding washing high-risk infants on neonatal intensive care units (NICUs)[2]. Washing such infants with tap water runs the risk of colonizing them with waterborne organisms. Furthermore, the use of small water collection pots for these infants can sample the initial tap water with the highest bacterial contamination [1]. Following an outbreak with an antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative organism (which was also found in sink taps), high-risk infants on an NICU were washed with sterile water from single-use bottles [3].(This is in accordance with the Department of Health advice that sterile or filtered water can be used for ‘top and tailing’neonates [4].) Infection control actions regarding the water supply and hand hygiene were taken together with use of sterile water for washing and there
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