Effectiveness of environmental decontamination as an infection control measure

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 542-553

  Bani Yaghoub, M ^a   Gautam, R ^a   Dopfer D ^b   Kaspar, C W ^c   Ivanek, R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision criteria; decontamination; infection control; pathogen persistence; SIS p model

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE DURATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK REDUCTION; TYPHOID FEVER; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

DECONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856268045     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000604     Document Type: Article

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