Nephrology News : declared in Study: Multidrug resistant bacteria found in hospital sinks

Many recent reports have found multidrug resistant bacteria living in hospital sink drainpipes, putting them in close proximity to vulnerable patients. The project grew out of the knowledge that patients are dying from infections with multidrug resistant bacteria that they acquire while hospitalized. are now using the sink lab to conduct a follow-up study, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Given the distance in typical hospital sinks of elbows below the sink bowls, it frequently takes a week for the colonies to reach the sink strainers. From there, bacteria quickly get splattered around the sink, and even onto the counters surrounding the sinks, where they can be picked up by the patients.

Multi-drug resistant bacteria 'colonising' hospital sinks

Multi-drug resistant bacteria are living in hospital sink drainpipes, putting them in close proximity to vulnerable patients, warns a team of US researchers. They reviewed more than 32 papers on the spread of bacteria resistant to the antibiotic carbapenem via sinks and other water reservoirs within hospitals, finding most were from after 2010. They have now investigated how the bacteria are colonising the sinks using a mock-up built in the lab, highlighting that the process was previously unclear. "We wanted to better understand how transmission occurs" Amy MathersThe project grew out of the knowledge that patients were dying from infections with multi-drug resistant bacteria acquired while in hospital, said the study authors from the University of Virginia. For the new study, the US researchers built five identical sinks in their lab, modelling them on the most common intensive care unit sink in the university's hospital in Charlottesville.


Several recent reports have found multidrug-resistant bacteria in hospital sink drainpipes, which puts the dangerous bacteria in close proximity to patients, but it was unclear exactly how the bacteria traveled from the drainpipes to patients. Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A study from the University of Virginia has found the pathway multidrug-resistant bacteria use to go from drainpipes in hospital sinks to infecting patients. A new study from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, has identified the pathway mutlidrug-resistant bacteria are using to travel from drainpipes in hospital sinks to contact with patients. They built a sink lab containing five identical sinks modeled after common ICU sinks in the University of Virginia's hospital. Researchers then used the Escherichia coli bacteria to test how bacteria move from sink to patients.



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