Blood pressure cuffs as a vector for transmission of multi-resistant organisms: Colonisation rates and effects of disinfection

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 222-226

  Grewal, Harjeet ^a   Varshney, Kavita ^a   Thomas, Lee C ^a   Kok, Jen ^a,b   Shetty, Amith ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure cuffs; Disinfection; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Transmission; Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; EMERGENCY WARD; HIGH DEPENDENCY UNIT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTI RESISTANT ORGANISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL SWAB; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84879104538     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12076     Document Type: Article

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