Dissemination of Staphylococcus warneri in the Hair of ICU Doctors - Advances in Microbiology

AiM > Vol.5 No.8, August 2015

Dissemination of Staphylococcus warneri in the Hair of ICU Doctors ()

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DOI: 10.4236/aim.2015.58062 2,229 Downloads 3,049 Views Citations

Author(s)

Ikue Shamoto¹, Yuka Ishihara¹, Akiko Sato¹, Hisae Usami¹, Naoyuki Matsuda², Michio Ohta^1*

Affiliation(s)

¹School of Nursing, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan.
²Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

ABSTRACT

This study reports a case of Staphylococcus warneri dissemination in the hair of ICU/ER doctors. Eleven of 23 doctors in the first survey and 11 of 24 doctors in the second survey, which were conducted after 6 months, carried S. warneri, while hair contamination of other coagulase-negative staphylococci was only sporadic. Chromosomal DNA analysis with PFGE revealed that 7 S. warneri strains isolated in the first survey and 7 strains isolated in the second survey showed similar PFGE patterns, suggesting that a cross-infection with a S. warneri strain continued over 6 months among the ICU doctors.

KEYWORDS

Staphylococcus warneri, ICU Doctor, PFGE

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Shamoto, I. , Ishihara, Y. , Sato, A. , Usami, H. , Matsuda, N. and Ohta, M. (2015) Dissemination of Staphylococcus warneri in the Hair of ICU Doctors. Advances in Microbiology, 5, 599-603. doi: 10.4236/aim.2015.58062.

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