The clinical significance of nasal irrigation bottle contamination

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2110-2114

  Keen, Mark ^a   Foreman, Andrew ^a   Wormald, Peter John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Biofilms; Chronic rhinosinusitis; Nasal douche; Nasal irrigation; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NASAL IRRIGATION BOTTLE CONTAMINATION; NASAL LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; RHINOSINUSITIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION;

EID: 78649827858     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21031     Document Type: Article

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