Assessment of self-contamination during removal of personal protective equipment for Ebola patient care

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1156-1161

  Casanova, Lisa M ^a   Teal, Lisa J ^b   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^b   Anderson, Deverick J ^c   Sexton, Daniel J ^c   Rutala, William A ^b   Weber, David J ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HYPOCHLORITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MS2; FACE; GLOVE; HAND; HAND DISINFECTION; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PERSONAL MONITOR; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SCRUB; SKIN; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS STRAIN; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE GLOVE; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CROSS INFECTION; EBOLAVIRUS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HAND HYGIENE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; NURSES; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84988876226     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.169     Document Type: Article

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