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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...
Autores principales: | Samarawickrama, Chameen, Li, Yi-Chiao, Carnt, Nicole, Willcox, Mark, Dutta, Debarun, Watson, Stephanie |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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