Search for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) contamination in subways of the metropolitan region of Recife-PE

• Autor(a) principal: do Monte, Paulo Ricardo Anjos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Maciel, Maria Amélia Vieira, Costa, Laury Francis, Lima, Jailton Lobo da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia e Saúde em Debate
• Texto Completo: https://psicodebate.dpgpsifpm.com.br/index.php/periodico/article/view/V5N2A3
• topic: Contaminação; Staphylococcus aureus resistente à meticilina; Metrôs; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Contamination; Subways

The spread of multiresistant microorganisms has become a public health problem, and means of transport are a way of contamination by these microorganisms. The objective of this study was to identify the occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) contaminating subway wagons that circulate in the Recife-PE Metropolitan Region. The samples were collected from April 16 to 18, 2018, in an area of ??24cm², with “swab”, of 45 samples of the wagons. From each wagon 5 samples were collected from the following locations: window, high rail, seat, door and low rail. The three lines were analyzed: Jaboatão, Camaragibe, and Cajueiro seco (south). Identification of microorganisms was performed by manual biochemical tests and susceptibility analysis was performed by the disc diffusion method with the antibiotics used were Clindamycin, Erythromycin, Cefoxitin, Sulfazotrim, Gentamycin, Chlorphenicol, Tetracycline and Ciprofloxacin. From forty-five samples collected in nine subways, three from each line, twenty-nine (64.44%) were positive for S. aureus. Of these positive samples, 13 (44.82%) were from the Jaboatão subway line, followed by the Camaragibe line and Cajueiro Seco line (South) with eight (27.59%) samples each. All samples were sensitive to cefoxitin. This study did not identify the occurrence of MRSA as contaminants in subway wagons that circulate in the Recife-PE Metropolitan Region, but identified the increasing increase of S. aureus resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin, thus suggesting the need for subway hygiene. aimed at preventing contamination of users.