Residual Candidozyma auris contamination of cable surfaces after terminal cleaning
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Anat Arbel1, Marina Feldman2, Shereen Soboh2
1Infectious Diseases unit, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center.
Abstract:
Candidozyma auris can persist in the healthcare environment despite disinfection. We retrospectively analyzed 420 post-cleaning environmental cultures from rooms previously occupied by C. auris-colonized or infected patients. Cables were positive more often than other surfaces (30.0% vs 7.4%) and remained independently associated with culture positivity after adjustment for cleaning episodes and prior room occupants (aOR, 5.76; 95% CI, 2.38-13.99). Cables may warrant specific attention in terminal-cleaning protocols.
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