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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
The Essential Points in Dealing with Microorganism Surrounding Medical Devices and Environment |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Takashi Okubo |
| Affiliation |
Division of Infection Prevention and Control, Tokyo Healthcare University Postgraduate School |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 24 (1), 1-8, 2014 |
| Received |
January 21, 2014 |
| Accepted |
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| Abstract |
Twenty to forty percent of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the contact infection via hands and/or fingers of healthcare workers that is a most important route of infections. On the other hand, with the introduction of complicated devices that are employed in the operations using endoscopes, there exist such many devices as being difficult to clean or disinfect. Under the hospital environment, it has been found in recent years that multidrug-resistant gram-negative rods, Clostridium difficile, etc. are infective via the hospital ward environment, which has brought about the circumstances requiring not only cleaning, but also disinfection of the hospital ward environment including measures against Norovirus.
This study describes the points to note on cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of various devices used in daily medical treatment and on the various methods of pasteurization at a low temperature that have been introduced in recent years. Moreover, by presenting new methods of disinfection related to improved hospital environment, we refer to the facility management for preventing infections transmitted through the environmental surfaces. |
| Keywords |
Clostridium difficile |
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