The role of environmental cleaning in the control of hospital-acquired infection.

By S. Dancer. Journal of Hospital Infection, 2009

627 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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In Infectious Diseases

1. Robert E. W. Hancock
2. S. Gellatly

In Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

1. Evelina Tacconelli
2. Robert E. W. Hancock
3. S. Gellatly

Citations in the corpus

• ESCMID guidelines for the management of the infection control measures to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in hospitalized patients. (2014, background): “There is little evidence for the role of cleaning for controlling MDR-GNB in situations other than those of outbreaks [215,216].”
• The Role Played by Contaminated Surfaces in the Transmission of Nosocomial Pathogens (2011, background): “Recently, however, there has been a reassessment of the role played by contaminated surfaces in the transmission of nosocomial pathogens.(2,9) Pathogen transfer from an affected patient to a susceptible host occurs most commonly via the hands of healthcare workers (HCWs), but contaminated objects, s”