Efficacy of prevention by high-efficiency particulate air filtration or laminar airflow against Aspergillus airborne contamination during hospital renovation

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 508-513

  Cornet, Muriel ^a,b   Levy, Vincent ^a   Fleury, Laurent ^b   Lortholary, Jacques ^b   Barquins, Sandrine ^a   Coureul, Marie Hélène ^a   Deliere, Elisabeth ^a   Zittoun, Robert ^a   Brücker, Gilles ^b   Bouvet, Anne ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILTRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FILTRATION; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0033162362     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501661     Document Type: Article

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