Eight-year surveillance of environmental fungal contamination in hospital operating rooms and haematological units

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-160

  Faure, O ^a   Fricker Hidalgo, H ^a   Lebeau, B ^a   Mallaret, M R ^a   Ambroise Thomas, P ^a   Grillot, R ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Acceptability threshold; Hospital environmental surveillance; Nosocomial fungal infections; Sampling strategy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PENICILLIUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SAMPLING; SMEAR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ASPERGILLUS; CROSS INFECTION; DEUTEROMYCETES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; RISK; STATISTICS;

ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; OPERATING ROOMS; PENICILLIUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036483801     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2001.1148     Document Type: Article

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