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Reducing oral contamination during corneal scrapes

AIMS: To identify potential contaminants of the corneal sampling procedure and examine the effect of wearing surgical face masks on the rate of contamination. METHODS: Ten surgeons recited out loud a 30 s standardised script for corneal scraping with blood agar plates positioned 30 cm away from them...

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Autores principales: Samarawickrama, Chameen, Li, Yi-Chiao, Carnt, Nicole, Willcox, Mark, Dutta, Debarun, Watson, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Open Ophthalmology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29354701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2016-000044