Impact of portable air filtration units on exposure of haematology-oncology patients to airborne Aspergillus fumigatus spores under field conditions

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 300-304

  Engelhart, Steffen ^a   Hanfland, J ^a   Glasmacher, A ^a   Krizek, L ^a   Schmidt Wolf, I G H ^a   Exner, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Aspergillus fumigatus; Haematology oncology; Invasive aspergillosis; Portable air filtration units

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANCER PATIENT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXPOSURE; FATALITY; FILTRATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; FUNGUS SPORE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL STAFF; NEUTROPENIA; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; ROOM VENTILATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WARD; ADULT; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENTS' ROOMS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0142212426     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(03)00176-2     Document Type: Article

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