Efficacy of an automated ultraviolet C device in a shared hospital bathroom

Toilet flushing can contribute to disease transmission by generating aerosolized bacteria and viruses that can land on nearby surfaces or follow air currents. Aerobic and anaerobic bacterial bioaerosol loads, and bacterial counts on 2 surfaces in a bathroom with a permanently installed, automated ul...

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Autores principales: Cooper, Jesse, Bryce, Elizabeth, Astrakianakis, George, Stefanovic, Aleksandra, Bartlett, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2016
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27575773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.07.004
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author Cooper, Jesse
Bryce, Elizabeth
Astrakianakis, George
Stefanovic, Aleksandra
Bartlett, Karen
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description Toilet flushing can contribute to disease transmission by generating aerosolized bacteria and viruses that can land on nearby surfaces or follow air currents. Aerobic and anaerobic bacterial bioaerosol loads, and bacterial counts on 2 surfaces in a bathroom with a permanently installed, automated ultraviolet C (UVC) irradiation device, were significantly lower than in a comparable bathroom without the UVC device. Permanently installed UVC lights may be a useful supplementary decontamination tool in shared patient bathrooms.
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spelling pubmed-71152622020-04-02 Efficacy of an automated ultraviolet C device in a shared hospital bathroom Cooper, Jesse Bryce, Elizabeth Astrakianakis, George Stefanovic, Aleksandra Bartlett, Karen Am J Infect Control Brief Report Toilet flushing can contribute to disease transmission by generating aerosolized bacteria and viruses that can land on nearby surfaces or follow air currents. Aerobic and anaerobic bacterial bioaerosol loads, and bacterial counts on 2 surfaces in a bathroom with a permanently installed, automated ultraviolet C (UVC) irradiation device, were significantly lower than in a comparable bathroom without the UVC device. Permanently installed UVC lights may be a useful supplementary decontamination tool in shared patient bathrooms. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2016-12-01 2016-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7115262/ /pubmed/27575773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.07.004 Text en © 2016 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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