Observations on hospital room contamination testing

Healthcare Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-13

  Smith, Philip W ^a,b   Gibbs, Shawn ^b   Sayles, Harlan ^b   Hewlett, Angela ^a   Rupp, Mark E ^a   Iwen, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84874888445     PISSN: 18355617     EISSN: 18355625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HI12049     Document Type: Article

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