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How Bacteria Spread From Sink Drainpipes to Patients

Initially, the bacteria colonize the elbows of the drain pipes. The investigators showed that from there, the colonies grow slowly towards the sink strainers—at the rate of roughly one inch per day, said Mathers. Given the distance in typical hospital sinks of elbows below the sink bowls, it frequently takes a week for the colonies to reach the sink strainers. From there, bacteria quickly get splattered around the sink, and even onto the counters surrounding the sinks, where they can be picked up by the patients....

February 24, 2017
Sink Testing

On September 1, 2018 at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, the Short Stay Unit (SSU)......

September 1, 2018
The Journal of Hospital Infection

Aim To determine whether an engineered sink could limit microbial aerosol contaminants in the air and sink basin....

May 11, 2019
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae dispersal from sinks

When drainage was fast, rear-draining sinks again released comparatively fewer CRE, although, in this case, the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.7)....

May 31, 2019
USA Today | CDC Report Superbugs Sicken Millions

Drug-resistant "superbugs" infect 2.8 million people and cause more than 35,000 deaths each year, underscoring the enormous public health threat of germs in what one official describes as a "post-antibiotic era," according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report....

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