Bowls and bacteria
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 80 (3) , 423-425
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400024888
Abstract
Summary: An episode of nosocomial infection with Klebsiella aerogenes in a surgical ward, in which six patients were infected, is described. The cause of the outbreak was identified as being contaminated washing-bowls. It is recommended that each patient should have his own bowl, which should be disinfected after use, dried and stored upside-down.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Infection and antibiotic usage at Boston City Hospital, January 1970Archives of internal medicine (1960), 1971
- Hospital-Acquired InfectionsNew England Journal of Medicine, 1970
- KLEBSIELLA IN FÆCAL FLORA OF RENAL-TRANSPLANT PATIENTSThe Lancet, 1970