Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Contamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinh...
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doaj-76a4b84ca7d0469ea36e904fb135571d2020-11-24T23:38:46ZengSociedade Brasileira de MicrobiologiaBrazilian Journal of Microbiology1678-44052015-06-0146258358910.1590/S1517-838246220131141S1517-83822015000200583Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, BrazilRaquel Oliveira Medrado PintoEliznara Fernades CorreiaKeyla Carvalho PereiraPaulo de Souza Costa SobrinhoDaniele Ferreira da SilvaContamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinhonha, MG, Brazil, we performed a microbiological analysis of 50 samples of diets and 27 samples of surfaces, utensils, and water used in the preparation of the diets. In addition, we assessed the good handling practices of enteral diets according to the requirements specified by the Brazilian legislation. Both kinds of enteral diets showed contamination by coliforms and Pseudomonas spp. No sample was positive for Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp. On the other hand, Listeria spp. was detected in only one sample of handmade diets. Contamination was significantly higher in the handmade preparations (p < 0.05). Nonconformities were detected with respect to good handling practices, which may compromise the diet safety. The results indicate that the sanitary quality of the enteral diets is unsatisfactory, especially handmade diets. Contamination by Pseudomonas spp. is significant because it is often involved in infection episodes. With regard to aseptic practices, it was observed the need of implementing new procedures for handling enteral diets.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000200583&lng=en&tlng=enenteral dietaseptic conditionscontamination |
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Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto Eliznara Fernades Correia Keyla Carvalho Pereira Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho Daniele Ferreira da Silva Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil Brazilian Journal of Microbiology enteral diet aseptic conditions contamination |
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Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto Eliznara Fernades Correia Keyla Carvalho Pereira Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho Daniele Ferreira da Silva |
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Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto |
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Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
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microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in minas gerais, brazil |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia |
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Brazilian Journal of Microbiology |
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1678-4405 |
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2015-06-01 |
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Contamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinhonha, MG, Brazil, we performed a microbiological analysis of 50 samples of diets and 27 samples of surfaces, utensils, and water used in the preparation of the diets. In addition, we assessed the good handling practices of enteral diets according to the requirements specified by the Brazilian legislation. Both kinds of enteral diets showed contamination by coliforms and Pseudomonas spp. No sample was positive for Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp. On the other hand, Listeria spp. was detected in only one sample of handmade diets. Contamination was significantly higher in the handmade preparations (p < 0.05). Nonconformities were detected with respect to good handling practices, which may compromise the diet safety. The results indicate that the sanitary quality of the enteral diets is unsatisfactory, especially handmade diets. Contamination by Pseudomonas spp. is significant because it is often involved in infection episodes. With regard to aseptic practices, it was observed the need of implementing new procedures for handling enteral diets. |
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