del Campo Rosa, Sánchez-Díaz Ana María, Zamora Javier, Torres Carmen, Cintas Luis María, Franco Elvira, Cantón Rafael, Baquero Fernando
Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
Microbiologyopen. 2014 Feb;3(1):128-32. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.156. Epub 2014 Jan 2.
A fingertip-to-fingertip intraindividual transmission experiment was carried out in 30 healthy volunteers, using four MLST-typed Enterococcus faecium clones. Overall results showed an adequate fit goodness to a theoretical exponential model, whereas four volunteers (13%) exhibited a significantly higher finger-to-finger bacterial transmission efficiency. This observation might have deep consequences in nosocomial epidemiology.
在30名健康志愿者中使用4个多位点序列分型(MLST)的粪肠球菌克隆进行了指尖到指尖的个体内传播实验。总体结果显示,与理论指数模型的拟合优度良好,而4名志愿者(13%)表现出显著更高的手指间细菌传播效率。这一观察结果可能对医院感染流行病学产生深远影响。