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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Jan 2008
Contamination of examination gloves in patient rooms and implications for transmission of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms .
- Maureen H Diaz, Christina Silkaitis, Michael Malczynski, Gary A Noskin, John R Warren, and Teresa Zembower.
- Department of Microbiology-Immunology , Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. m-abott@northwestern.edu
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Jan 1; 29 (1): 63-5.
AbstractAn assessment of bacterial contamination on examination gloves indicated that contaminated gloves may be a mechanism of indirect bacterial transmission from the hands of healthcare workers to patients. This mechanism is indicated by the recovery of identical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from gloves and from the clinical cultures of a patient with invasive infection.
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