Residual antibiotics in allograft heart valve tissue samples following antibiotic disinfection

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-234

  Leeming, J P ^a   Lovering, A M ^b   Hunt, C J ^c,d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c East Anglia Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allograft heart valves; Decontamination; Gentamicin; Tissue decontamination; Transplantation; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NYSTATIN; POLYMYXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; DRUG INHIBITION; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DISINFECTION; GENTAMICINS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 20344385505     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2004.12.022     Document Type: Article

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