Bacterial Contamination of Clothes and Environmental Items in a Third-Level Hospital in Colombia
Table 1
Distribution of bacterial isolates from keyboards.
Potentially clinically relevant microorganisms
Potentially clinically irrelevant microorganisms
Type of surface
Number of samples per hospital area
Number of Isolates
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus sp.*
Meticillin-sensible Staphylococcus sp.+
Enterococcus sp.^
Gram-negative rods†
Bacillus sp.
%
%
%
%
%
Keyboards ()
Emergency room ()
8
0
0
3
37,5
0
0
2
25
3
37,5
Adult surgical ICU ()
8
0
0
6
75
2
25
0
0
0
0
Adult medical ICU ()
9
0
0
3
33,3
1
11,1
1
11,1
4
44,4
Adult special care unit ()
9
1
11,1
2
22,2
0
0
0
0
6
66,6
Internal medicine ward ()
5
1
20
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
80
Overall
39
2
5,1
14
35,9
3
7,7
3
7,7
17
43,5
S. epidermidis. +S. epidermidis, S. aureus, S. warneri, S. haemolyticus. ^One was a E. faecium resistant to vancomycin. †Pantoea agglomerans, Escherichia hermannii, Leclercia adecarboxylata.
