By Marie Rosenthal, MS
AMSTERDAM—Patient privacy curtains can be a source of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), according to research presented at the 2019 annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (poster 7562).
Throughout the day, many people touch patient privacy curtains, which are used in most health care facilities, but they are not cleaned often, and therefore can remain contaminated between patients. And these contaminated fabrics would be a