Transfer of clostridium difficile spores by nonsporicidal wipes and improperly used hypochlorite wipes: Practice + product = perfection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 441-442

  Cadnum, Jennifer L ^a   Hurless, Kelly N ^b   Kundrapu, Sirisha ^a   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISINFECTION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84874834049     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669871     Document Type: Letter

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