I knew I hated computers - now it is MRSA

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Bill Marler

I was reading an article on MRSE from Taiwan that hospital computers may harbor MRSA.  Apparently, researchers in Taiwan found computer keyboards and computer mice harbor pathogens -- including Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  However, the researchers suggest few infections can be traced to the computers. The MRSA and other pathogens are not being spread around medical facilities because healthcare workers seem to be using good hand hygiene.

The research team, led by Yen-hsu Chen of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in Taiwan, looked at computer equipment in a 1,600-bed hospital with 282 computers. They found 17.4 percent contamination rate of S. aureus, Acinetobacter spp. or Pseudomonas spp. The contamination rates of MRSA and A. baumannii in the ward computers were 1.1 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively. No P. aeruginosa was found.

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