Associations between bacterial contamination of health care workers' hands and contamination of white coats and scrubs

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Munoz Price, L Silvia ^a,b   Arheart, Kristopher L ^a   Mills, John P ^a   Cleary, Timothy ^a   Depascale, Dennise ^b   Jimenez, Adriana ^b   Fajardo Aquino, Yovanit ^b   Coro, Gabriel ^b   Birnbach, David J ^a   Lubarsky, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Hand contamination

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOTHING; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ENTEROCOCCUS; HAND; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84868195416     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.03.032     Document Type: Article

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