Why, when and how to clean stethoscopes [4]

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-82

  Leprat, R ^a   Minary, P ^a   Devaux, V ^a   De Waziere, B ^a   Dupond, J L ^a   Talon, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM; DETERGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLEANING; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; STETHOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STATISTICS;

BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; DETERGENTS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STETHOSCOPES;

EID: 0031596091     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(98)90250-X     Document Type: Letter

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