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

Rosa del Campo; Ana María Sánchez-Díaz; Javier Zamora; Carmen Torres; Luis María Cintas; Elvira Franco; Rafael Cantón; Fernando Baquero

doi:10.1002/mbo3.156

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

Rosa del Campo, Ana María Sánchez-Díaz, Javier Zamora, Carmen Torres, Luis María Cintas, Elvira Franco, Rafael Cantón, Fernando Baquero

Metabolism and Systems Research

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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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	128-132
Journal	MicrobiologyOpen
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.156
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2014

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