Microbial flora on doctors' white coats.
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Microbial flora on doctors' white coats.
OBJECTIVE To determine the level and type of microbial contamination present on the white coats of doctors in order to assess the risk of transmission of pathogenic micro-organisms by this route in a hospital setting. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of the bacterial contamination of white coats in a general hospital. SETTING East Birmingham Hospital, an urban general hospital with 800 beds. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.303.6817.1602