Mukherjee Nabanita, Sulaiman Irshad M, Banerjee Pratik
Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
Southeast Regional Laboratory, Microbiological Sciences Branch, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Atlanta, GA.
Am J Infect Control. 2016 Dec 1;44(12):1681-1683. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.06.031. Epub 2016 Sep 19.
Indoor skin-contact surfaces of public fitness centers may serve as reservoirs of potential human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We found a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) MRSA of clonal complex 59 lineage harboring a variety of extracellular toxin genes from surface swab samples collected from inanimate surfaces of fitness centers in the Memphis metropolitan area, Tennessee. Our findings underscore the role of inanimate surfaces as potential sources of transmission of MDR MRSA strains with considerable genetic diversity.
公共健身中心的室内皮肤接触表面可能成为耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌(MRSA)潜在人际传播的储存库。我们从田纳西州孟菲斯都会区健身中心的无生命表面采集的表面拭子样本中发现,携带多种细胞外毒素基因的克隆复合体59谱系的多重耐药(MDR)MRSA患病率很高。我们的研究结果强调了无生命表面作为具有相当遗传多样性的MDR MRSA菌株潜在传播源的作用。