A UVC device for intra-luminal disinfection of catheters: In vitro tests on soft polymer tubes contaminated with pseudomonas aeruginosa, staphylococcus aureus, escherichia coli and Candida albicans

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1123-1128

  Bak, Jimmy ^a   Begovic, Tanja ^a   Bjarnsholt, Thomas ^b   Nielsen, Anne ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 80052417636     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00962.x     Document Type: Article

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