Handwashing sinks as reservoirs of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the intensive care unit: a prospective multicenter study
The contamination rate of CRAB in handwashing sinks is high in some local ICUs, and the contaminated sinks can serve as environmental reservoirs for CRAB clusters.
Authors
- Yu Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-4256)
- Hongdi Zhuang
- Shasha Ran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-6041)
- Qian Xiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8245-2611)
- Qu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-8370)
- Hongxia Wen
- Xiaofei Duan
- Yujing Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5207-1762)
- Wensheng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6411-7801)
- Li Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1397-6489)
- Ji Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-9175)
- Fu Qiao
- Lan Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0265-9254)
- Yan Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4730-6674)
- Xueqin Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3657-1529)
- Chuanmin Tao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4126-5411)
- Xia Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6978-8516)
- Huaming Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4408-8775)
Institutions
- Sichuan University (CN)
- West China Hospital of Sichuan University (CN)
- Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital (CN)
- Third People's Hospital of Chengdu (CN)
- Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Sichuan Province (CN)
- Chengdu University (CN)
- First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College (CN)
- Chengdu Second People's Hospital (CN)
- Sichuan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Public Health Clinical Center of Chengdu (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2024-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1468521
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.85