Measurement of bacterial and fungal air counts in two bone marrow transplant units.
We evaluated air contamination with bacteria and fungi in a transplantation unit, successively housed in two buildings. Bacterial air contamination was least in laminar air flow rooms, and reduced in ultraclean air rooms in comparison with conventional rooms. Similar results were obtained with culture of air for fungi.
Arlet
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Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
Gluckman
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E
Gerber
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F
Perol
Y
Y
Hirsch
A
A
D000391:Air Microbiology; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans