Examination of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from the Gloves and Gowns of Intensive Care Unit Health Care Workers

Timileyin Adedrian; Stephanie Hitchcock; Lyndsay M O'Hara; Jane M Michalski; J Kristie Johnson; David P Calfee; Loren G Miller; Tracy H Hazen; Anthony D Harris; David A Rasko

doi:10.1128/MRA.00691-20

Examination of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from the Gloves and Gowns of Intensive Care Unit Health Care Workers

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Aug 6;9(32):e00691-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00691-20.

Authors

Timileyin Adedrian¹, Stephanie Hitchcock², Lyndsay M O'Hara¹, Jane M Michalski^{3

4}, J Kristie Johnson^{4

2}, David P Calfee⁵, Loren G Miller⁶, Tracy H Hazen^{3

4}, Anthony D Harris¹, David A Rasko^{7

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ LA Biomedical Research Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
⁷ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA [email protected].

Abstract

Interactions with health care workers are often thought to be associated with the spread of microbes in the hospital setting. We have examined the genomic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the gloves and gowns of health care workers from four hospitals in three states.

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