Dissemination of human adenoviruses and rotavirus species A on fomites of hospital pediatric units

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• 作者：Ana Carolina Ganime ; PhD^a ; ^{acganime@ioc.fiocruz.br" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; José ; Paulo G. Leite ; PhD^a ; Carlos Eduardo da Silva Figueiredo ; MD ; MSc^b ; Filipe A. Carvalho-Costa ; MD ; PhD^a ; Fabiana Gil Melgaç ; o ; MSc^a ; Fabio Correia Malta ; BSc^a ; Tulio M. Fumian ; PhD^a ; Marize P. Miagostovich ; PhD^a
• 关键词：Hospital infection ; Neonatal intensive care unit ; Hospital surfaces
• 刊名：American Journal of Infection Control
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：44
• 期：11
• 页码：1411-1413
• 全文大小：222 K

文摘

Rotavirus A and human adenovirus dissemination were demonstrated both in a pediatric ward and in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the same pediatric hospital. Virus detection from fomites samples were higher in the pediatric ward (42.3% [137 out of 324]) than in the NICU (4.5% [7 out of 156]), revealing that cleaning processes used in our NICU are effective in reducing viral contamination, suggesting human adenovirus as a potential biomarker of contamination of hospital fomites.