Figure 1. Example of contamination between health care environments and community environments.
Hospital and health related care facilities are prevalent to
bacteria and infections. It is possible that these facilities can have a role
of spreading bacteria into the community. A study was conducted by Thapaliya et al. (2017)
to view the environmental contamination of bacterium S. aureus resistant to
methicillin (MRSA) in health professional-associated (HPA) and non-health professional
(NHPA) buildings in a university campus. The study sampled surfaces of the
buildings that were mostly touched throughout the day and the buildings were sampled
twice during two weeks when classes were actively in session (Thapaliya
et al., 2017). The results obtained suggested that there was a high number of
contamination between the two communities, which both contained strains of S. aureus and MRSA. The contamination could have been due to poor cleaning maintenance in
the buildings or poor sanitation done by the students. However, these results
suggest that there is a spreading if infections by HPA facilities and new
methods of containment or prevention against transmitting bacteria should be
implemented.
original article:
Dipendra
Thapaliya, Mohammed Taha, Mark R. Dalman, Jhalka Kadariya, Tara C. Smith,
Environmental contamination with Staphylococcus aureus at a large, Midwestern
university campus, In Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 599–600, 2017,
Pages 1363-1368, ISSN 0048-9697,
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