Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings presented at the 2019 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
More than a fifth of 1,500 samples taken from six post-acute care nursing facilities in the United States were laced with one or more dangerous bacteria, including the hospital bug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), researchers found.
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