The role of the faucet's aerator kit for contamination of drinking water
| Autor: | Sebastian Schulz-Stübner, Holger Schürle, Georg-Joachim Tuschewitzki, Eva Fritz, Janine Riechelmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0303 health sciences
Special design 030306 microbiology Epidemiology business.industry Drinking Water Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Water safety Contamination Real life setting Hospitals Toxicology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious Diseases Pseudomonas aeruginosa Equipment Contamination Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Aeration Drug Contamination business Risk adjusted |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Infection Control. 49:643-645 |
| ISSN: | 0196-6553 |
| Popis: | Experimentally we demonstrated the possibility of retrograde contamination of aerator kits, independent of special design, with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In a real life setting contamination of aerator kits with typical environmental and water organisms occurred, whether they were changed after 6 or 12 weeks, so we recommend a risk adjusted rather than schedule-based changing regimen in hospitals, eg, if potential retrograde contamination might be a relevant factor in rooms occupied by patients with multiresistant gram-negative organisms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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