Individual variability in finger-to-finger transmission efficiency of Enterococcus faecium clones

  1. del Campo, R. 45
  2. Sánchez-Díaz, A.M. 5
  3. Zamora, J. 25
  4. Torres, C. 1
  5. Cintas, L.M. 3
  6. Franco, E. 3
  7. Cantón, R. 45
  8. Baquero, F. 245
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
    info

    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

  2. 2 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Epidemiología Y Salud Pública
    info

    Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Epidemiología Y Salud Pública

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/050q0kv47

  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    info

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  4. 4 Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria
    info

    Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03fftr154

  5. 5 Hospital Ramón y Cajal
    info

    Hospital Ramón y Cajal

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/050eq1942

Show affiliations +
Journal:
MicrobiologyOpen

ISSN: 2045-8827

Year of publication: 2014

Volume: 3

Issue: 1

Pages: 128-132

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1002/MBO3.156 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84893776647 WoS: WOS:000342352300011 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: MicrobiologyOpen

Institutional repository: lock_openOpen access Editor

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

A fingertip-to-fingertip intraindividual transmission experiment was carried out in 30 healthy volunteers, using four MLST-typed Enterococcus faecium clones. Overall results showed an adequate fit goodness to a theoretical exponential model, whereas four volunteers (13%) exhibited a significantly higher finger-to-finger bacterial transmission efficiency. This observation might have deep consequences in nosocomial epidemiology. © 2014 The Authors. MicrobiologyOpen published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.