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Bacterial contamination in milk kitchens in pediatric hospitals in Salvador, Brazil
Provedor de dados: 55
Autores: Cairo,Romilda Castro; Silva,Luciana Rodrigues; Andrade,Carol Ferreira de; Barberino,Maria Goreth de Andrade; Bandeira,Antônio Carlos; Santos,Kleber Pimentel; Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.
Milk may represent an important source of infectious agents to hospitalized pediatric patients. To describe the bacterial microflora isolated from the hands, stools, pharynx of all workers at milk kitchens in pediatric hospitals in the city of Salvador, Brazil, as well as in the formulas prepared by them, we carried out this cross-sectional study with all 91 workers from the 20 milk kitchens of all the public and private hospitals in Salvador, Brazil. Hand and pharynx swabs and stool samples were collected from all workers, as well as samples of the milk and formulas delivered by the kitchens. All samples were cultured for the detection of pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. Pathogenic bacteria were isolated from 20 (22.0%) and 8 (8.8%) cultures of the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Bacteria; Microflora; Hands; Faeces; Pharynx; Milk; Contamination; Hospital; Children.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000300011