NUR 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microbiology, Acinetobacter, Enterococcus
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Chirca (2019) and dancer (2010) talk about contamination in the health care environment and describe it as the reason behind the presence of nosocomial pathogens that create the microbial burden attributed to a high prevalence of hospital-acquired infections (hais). In addition, there are no scientific standards to measure the effect of an individual cleaner, or assess environmental cleanliness (dancer, The high microbial burden is attributed to the transmission of pathogens from sick patients and contaminated surfaces, such as medics" hands and clothes, medical equipment, and patients" items. Some of the microorganisms can persist in the healthcare environment from days and weeks, to months depending on the conditions and their resistance to disinfectants. They include vancomycin-resistant enterococci, methicillin-resistant s. aureus, e. coli, acinetobacter spp. , clostridium difficile, norovirus, and p. aeruginosa (chirca, 2019; dancer, 2010). These microorganisms cause hais when transferred to patients.
