Cloud health-care workers

被引：55

作者：

Sherertz, RJ ^{[1
]}

Bassetti, S ^{[1
]}

Bassetti-Wyss, B ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Wake Forest Univ, Bowman Gray Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Winston Salem, NC 27157 USA

来源：

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 2001年 / 7卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.3201/eid0702.010218

中图分类号：

R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];

学科分类号：

100102 ;

摘要：

Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections. Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A streptococci have caused outbreaks of surgical site infection by airborne dispersal. Outbreaks have been associated with skin colonization or viral upper respiratory tract infection in a phenomenon of airborne dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus called the "cloud" phenomenon. This review summarizes the data supporting the existence of cloud health-care workers.

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