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A Method to Test the Efficacy of Handwashing for the Removal of Emerging Infectious Pathogens
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Recovery efficiency of two glove-sampling methods
Amanda K Lyons1, Laura J Rose1, Judith Noble-Wang1
1Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|March 2, 2021
Abstract:
Two methods to sample pathogens from gloved hands were compared: direct imprint onto agar and a sponge-wipe method. The sponge method was significantly better at recovering Clostridiodes difficile spores, and no difference was observed between the methods at 101 inoculum for carbapenemase-producing KPC+ Klebsiella pneumoniae, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Acinetobacter baumannii.

