Journal
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 11, Pages 1374-1377Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.181
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- Department of Veterans Affairs [BX002944]
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Hospital floors are frequently contaminated with pathogens, but it is not known whether floors are a potential source of transmission. We demonstrated that a nonpathogenic virus inoculated onto floors in hospital rooms disseminated rapidly to the hands of patients and to high-touch surfaces inside and outside the room.
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