Controlling hospital-acquired infection: Focus on the role of the environment and new technologies for decontamination

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 665-690

  Dancer, Stephanie J ^a  

^a HAIRMYRES HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OZONE;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STENOTROPHOMONAS; SURVIVAL TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; DISINFECTION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84907751841     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00020-14     Document Type: Article

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