Environmental Surface Cleaning and Disinfection: Effects of Alcohol Concentration
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چکیده
I nfection prevention programs for health care facilities include environmental surface cleaning and disinfection as fundamental components. The use of chemical disinfectants is warranted in certain instances because it is neither necessary nor possible to sterilize all contaminated items and surfaces after provision of patient care. The importance of environmental asepsis is evident as reported clinical outbreaks have been increasing involving microbial transmissions from environmental surfaces in hospital settings. As examples, recent investigations indicated that contaminated surfaces played important roles in epidemic and endemic transmission of Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, norovirus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infections, and multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative rods.
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