Evaluation of a continuously active disinfectant for decontamination of portable medical equipment

A single spray application of a continuously active disinfectant on portable equipment resulted in significant reductions in aerobic colony counts over 7 days and in recovery of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococci: 3 of 93 cultures (3%) versus 11 of 97 (11%) and 20 of 97 (21%) in quaternary ammoni...

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Autores principales: Redmond, Sarah N., Cadnum, Jennifer L., Silva, Sandra Y., Pearlmutter, Basya S., Jencson, Annette L., Alhmidi, Heba, Wilson, Brigid M., Donskey, Curtis J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8961336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34034834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.66
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author Redmond, Sarah N.
Cadnum, Jennifer L.
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Jencson, Annette L.
Alhmidi, Heba
Wilson, Brigid M.
Donskey, Curtis J.
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Cadnum, Jennifer L.
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description A single spray application of a continuously active disinfectant on portable equipment resulted in significant reductions in aerobic colony counts over 7 days and in recovery of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococci: 3 of 93 cultures (3%) versus 11 of 97 (11%) and 20 of 97 (21%) in quaternary ammonium disinfectant and untreated control groups, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-89613362022-04-08 Evaluation of a continuously active disinfectant for decontamination of portable medical equipment Redmond, Sarah N. Cadnum, Jennifer L. Silva, Sandra Y. Pearlmutter, Basya S. Jencson, Annette L. Alhmidi, Heba Wilson, Brigid M. Donskey, Curtis J. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication A single spray application of a continuously active disinfectant on portable equipment resulted in significant reductions in aerobic colony counts over 7 days and in recovery of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococci: 3 of 93 cultures (3%) versus 11 of 97 (11%) and 20 of 97 (21%) in quaternary ammonium disinfectant and untreated control groups, respectively. Cambridge University Press 2022-03 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8961336/ /pubmed/34034834 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.66 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Alhmidi, Heba
Wilson, Brigid M.
Donskey, Curtis J.
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title_sort evaluation of a continuously active disinfectant for decontamination of portable medical equipment
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