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cord-348840-s8wjg4ar	Cobrado, L.	High-touch surfaces: microbial neighbours at hand	2017-06-25		.txt	text/plain	5839	248	24	Microorganisms contaminating such high-touch surfaces include Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, viruses, yeasts and parasites, with improved cleaning and disinfection effectively decreasing the rate of HAIs. Manual and automated surface cleaning strategies used in the control of infectious outbreaks are discussed and current trends concerning the prevention of contamination by the use of antimicrobial surfaces are taken into consideration in this manuscript. Additionally, evidence that hightouch surfaces (HTS) will work as an extra source of microbial pathogens accumulated over the years, e.g., several microorganisms can survive on medical equipment for hours to months, improved cleaning and disinfection of surfaces decrease the rate of HAI, and hospital environmental screening results and the study of clonal outbreaks, all have given support to the role of contaminated HTS in the transmission of pathogens between patients and healthcare personnel [4] . Microbial pathogens most frequently involved in the contamination of hospital environmental surfaces are (methicillinresistant) Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycinresistant enterococci (VRE), Clostridium difficile, multidrug resistant Gramme-negative bacilli (such as Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter and Enterobacteriaceae), Norovirus, Coronavirus and Candida species [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] .	./cache/cord-348840-s8wjg4ar.txt	./txt/cord-348840-s8wjg4ar.txt