Comparison of environmental mrsa levels on high-touch surfaces in contact isolation and noncontact isolation patient rooms

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1472-1475

  Villamaria, Frank C ^a   Berlanga, Gemma ^a,b   Liao, I Chia ^a   Ganachari Mallappa, Nagaraja ^a   Stock, Eileen M ^a,c   Zeber, John E ^a,c   Jinadatha, Chetan ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GOVERNMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOLATION HOSPITAL; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS, ISOLATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84958537873     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.207     Document Type: Article

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