"Cloud" health-care workers.

نویسندگان

  • R. J. Sherertz
  • S. Bassetti
  • B. Bassetti-Wyss
چکیده

Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections. Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A streptococci have caused outbreaks of surgical site infection by airborne dispersal. Outbreaks have been associated with skin colonization or viral upper respiratory tract infection in a phenomenon of airborne dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus called the "cloud" phenomenon. This review summarizes the data supporting the existence of cloud health-care workers.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases

دوره 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001