Hand Colonization with Gram-Negative Organisms of Healthcare Workers Accessing the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Uganda Heart Institute

BACKGROUND: Hands of healthcare workers (HCWs) are vehicles for pathogens responsible for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Following the identification of Gram-negative organisms (GNOs) in all cases of HAIs in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), we sought to determine the burden of hand c...

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Autores principales: Ssemogerere, Lameck, Sendagire, Cornelius, Mbabazi, Ceaser, Namungoma, Yvonne, Oketayot, Anna Noland, Namuyonga, Judith, Mijumbi, Cephas, Nkwine, Ritah, Othin, Moses, Oketcho, Michael, Magala, John Paul, Lwabi, Peter, Kwizera, Arthur, Dünser, Martin W., Najjuka, Christine Florence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31687206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6081954

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