Assessment of the Overall and Multidrug-Resistant Organism Bioburden on Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1426-1432

  Shams, Alicia M ^a   Rose, Laura J ^a   Edwards, Jonathan R ^a   Cali, Salvatore ^b   Harris, Anthony D ^c   Jacob, Jesse T ^d   Lafae, Anna ^d   Pineles, Lisa L ^c   Thom, Kerri A ^c   McDonald, L Clifford ^a   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Noble Wang, Judith A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BED; CALL BUTTON; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ENVIRONMENT; EXAMINATION TABLE; GENERAL DEVICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; IV POLE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROOM DOOR HANDLE; SURFACE AREA; TELEPHONE; TELEVISION REMOTE; TOILETING; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; GRAM-POSITIVE ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85000426739     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.198     Document Type: Article

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