Table 2. Prevalence of surface contamination with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli, long-term care facility, the Netherlands, March 2013 to April 2014.

Surface	Total number of culturesa	Number of cultures positivea (row %)
		Total	ESBL-ST131	Other ESBL-EC
Toilet or bedside commode	103	11 (10.7)	3 (2.9)	8 (7.8)
Sink	54	2 (3.7)	1 (1.9)	1 (1.9)
Kitchen area	48	3 (6.3)	0	3 (6.3)
Common living area	58	1 (1.7)	0	1 (1.7)
Total	285	17 (6.0)	4 (1.4)	13 (4.6)
Ward-relatedb	285	9 (3.2)	4 (1.4)	5 (1.8)

ESBL-ST131: ESBL-producing E. coli isolates belonging to sequence type ST131; Other ESBL-EC: ESBL-producing E. coli isolates not belonging to ST131.

^a Only the results from the sterile gauze method are shown.

^b Number of isolates that by genomic profiling were similar to isolates obtained from residents’ colonisation cultures during the same time-period.