Response to: Price EH, Ayliffe G, 'Hot hospitals and what happened to wash, rinse and dry? Recent changes to cleaning, disinfection and environmental ventilation'

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 376-378

  Maillard, J Y ^a   Cheeseman, K E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOCIDE; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; DETERGENT; METICILLIN;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CLEANING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISINFECTION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STAFF TRAINING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; HAND; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56249124555     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.07.021     Document Type: Letter

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