The necktie as a potential vector of infection: Are doctors happy to do without?

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-139

  McGovern, B ^a   Doyle, E ^a   Fenelon, L E ^a   FitzGerald, S F ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOTHING; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE CARRIER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLOTHING; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77952670573     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.12.008     Document Type: Letter

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