Isopropyl Alcohol Compared with Isopropyl Alcohol plus Povidone-Iodine as Skin Preparation for Prevention of Blood Culture Contamination
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Isopropyl alcohol compared with isopropyl alcohol plus povidone-iodine as skin preparation for prevention of blood culture contamination.
Despite a number of studies on the efficacies of antiseptics for the prevention of blood culture contamination, it still remains unclear which antiseptic should be used. Although the combination of povidone-iodine and isopropyl alcohol has been traditionally used in many institutions, the application of povidone-iodine needs extra time, and there is little evidence that this combination could h...
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Affiliations: 1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; 2. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland; 3. Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Address correspondence to Matthias Maiwald, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01425-08