Evaluation of microbial contamination in a surgical department of a Romanian military emergency hospital - A case study
Open Access
- 23 August 2021
- journal article
- Published by Heighten Science Publications Corporation in Journal of Clinical Intensive Care and Medicine
- Vol. 6 (1), 026-028
- https://doi.org/10.29328/journal.jcicm.1001037
Abstract
Assessment of the microbial load of the operating environment during daily pre-, intra-, and post-operative procedures in a surgical department of a military emergency hospital in Bucharest showed the bacterial contamination of intra-operative air by increasing the number of bacteria above the allowed maximum level and the detection of a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli).Keywords
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