Microbial contamination of hospital reusable cleaning towels

Volume: 41, Issue: 10, Pages: 912 - 915
Published: Oct 1, 2013
Abstract
Background Hospital cleaning practices are critical to the prevention of nosocomial infection transmission. To this end, cloth towels soaked in disinfectants are commonly used to clean and disinfect hospital surfaces. Cloth cleaning towels have been linked to an outbreak of Bacillus cereus and have been shown to reduce the effectiveness of commonly used quaternary ammonium disinfectants. Thus, it is important to determine whether the reuse of...
Paper Details
Title
Microbial contamination of hospital reusable cleaning towels
Published Date
Oct 1, 2013
Volume
41
Issue
10
Pages
912 - 915
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