Does coating all room surfaces with an ultraviolet C light-nanoreflective coating improve decontamination compared with coating only the walls?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 323-325

  Rutala, William A ^a,b   Weber, David J ^a,b   Gergen, Maria F ^a   Tande, Brian M ^c   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84893942358     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675291     Document Type: Article

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