In a hospital, what you can’t see could hurt you. Healthcare facilities continue to battle drug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that loiter on surfaces even after patient rooms have been cleaned and can cause new, sometimes-deadly infections. But a new study has found that using a combination of chemicals and UV light to clean patient rooms cut transmission of four major superbugs by a cumulative 30 percent among a specific group of patients — those who stay overnight in a room where someone with a known positive culture or infection of a drug-resistant organism had previously been treated.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151007125740.htm
Cleaning hospital rooms with chemicals, UV rays cuts superbug transmissions
7 octubre 2015
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