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Table 2 Numbers of contaminated and highly contaminated mobile handwashing stations (mHWS) and highly contaminated mHWS which contained multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria

From: Bacterial contamination of mobile handwashing stations in hospital settings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Total

Water

Soap

Kinshasa

Lubumbashi

 

Total mHWS

281

281

142

184

97

Contaminated (% of total)

198 (70.5%)

191 (68.0%)

42 (29.6%)

147 (80.0%)

51 (52.6%)

Highly contaminated (% of total)

99 (35.2%)

83 (29.5%)

32 (22.5%)

72 (39.1%)

27 (27.8%)

Highly contaminated with MDR (% of total)

27 (9.6%)

27 (9.6%)

1 (0.7%)

21 (11.4%)

6 (6.2%)

  1. Contaminated mHWS had growth of Gram-negative bacteria at concentrations ≥ 1 Colony Forming Unit (CFU)/100 ml. Highly contaminated mHWS were defined as mHWS of which water and/or soap were contaminated at concentrations > 10,000/ml CFU/ml. MDR stands for the presence of multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The Ven-diagram shows the numbers of mHWS with highly contaminated water, soap and both water and soap. Soap was present in 30/67 mHWS with highly contaminated water samples