Baby bottle steam sterilizers for disinfecting home nebulizers inoculated with non-tuberculous mycobacteria

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 222-225

  Towle, D ^a   Callan, D A ^a   Lamprea, C ^a   Murray, T S ^a,b,c  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b New York   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Disinfection; Nebulizer; Non tuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; AUTOCLAVE; BABY BOTTLE STEAM STERILIZER; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISINFECTION; INOCULATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; NEBULIZER; NONHUMAN; STERILIZER; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER CONTAMINATION; DEVICES; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; WATER VAPOR;

WATER VAPOR;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; STEAM; STERILIZATION;

EID: 84958185610     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.08.030     Document Type: Article

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