Skin disinfection methods: Prospective evaluation and postimplementation results

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-64

  Ramirez Arcos, Sandra ^a   Goldman, Mindy ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; METHODOLOGY; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

2-PROPANOL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CANADA; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISINFECTION; HUMANS; IODINE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHLEBOTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN;

EID: 73649125301     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02434.x     Document Type: Article

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