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Persistent Colonisation of Antimicrobial Silver-Impregnated Shower Heads and Hoses Presents A Risk for Acquisition of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Healthcare Settings

2022-03-29

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa in healthcare waters presents an infection-risk to immune-suppressed patients. We introduced interventions (quarterly antimicrobial silver-impregnated shower head-hose replacement and shower-hose truncation) to determine effect on presence/persistence of P. aeruginosa in hospital shower-waters and drains over a seven-month survey (560 samples; 14 time-points) on augmented-care (immune-compro...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1403389/v1

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