Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?

Identity (ID) badges and lanyards worn by pediatric health care workers (HCWs) have been shown to be potential vectors of nosocomial bacterial infections. This cross-sectional study determined the contamination of ID badges and lanyards worn by pediatric HCWs with common respiratory and gastrointest...

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Autores principales: Ting, Chun Yi, Cheng, Daryl R., Kotsanas, Despina, Kirkwood, Carl D., Bogdanovic-Sakran, Nada, Stuart, Rhonda L., Buttery, Jim P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.024
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Kotsanas, Despina
Kirkwood, Carl D.
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description Identity (ID) badges and lanyards worn by pediatric health care workers (HCWs) have been shown to be potential vectors of nosocomial bacterial infections. This cross-sectional study determined the contamination of ID badges and lanyards worn by pediatric HCWs with common respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses. The results showed that ID badges and lanyards are not significantly contaminated with common respiratory or gastrointestinal viruses and are unlikely to be a significant vector for nosocomial infection.
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spelling pubmed-71327352020-04-08 Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens? Ting, Chun Yi Cheng, Daryl R. Kotsanas, Despina Kirkwood, Carl D. Bogdanovic-Sakran, Nada Stuart, Rhonda L. Buttery, Jim P. Am J Infect Control Brief Report Identity (ID) badges and lanyards worn by pediatric health care workers (HCWs) have been shown to be potential vectors of nosocomial bacterial infections. This cross-sectional study determined the contamination of ID badges and lanyards worn by pediatric HCWs with common respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses. The results showed that ID badges and lanyards are not significantly contaminated with common respiratory or gastrointestinal viruses and are unlikely to be a significant vector for nosocomial infection. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015-11-01 2015-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7132735/ /pubmed/26300101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.024 Text en Copyright © 2015 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. 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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Stuart, Rhonda L.
Buttery, Jim P.
Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
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title_full Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
title_fullStr Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
title_full_unstemmed Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
title_short Are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
title_sort are identity badges and lanyards in pediatrics potentially contaminated with viral pathogens?
topic Brief Report
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