Mobile air-decontamination unit and filamentous fungal load in the hematology ward: how efficient at the low-activity mode?
Air treatment with a mobile Plasmair air-decontamination unit significantly reduces the fungal spore load in hematology wards. We report that this system used at a low aspiration flow does not perform total biodecontamination against filamentous fungi. Moreover, the filamentous fungus load remaining in rooms equipped with this mobile air-decontamination unit is lowest in wards in which other preventive measures against nosocomial filamentous fungal infections are implemented.
Parasitology and Mycology Laboratory, Grenoble Universitary Hospital and Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. MPBrenierPinchart@chu-grenoble.fr
Marie-Pierre
MP
Brenier-Pinchart
Laurence
L
Coussa-Rivière
Bernadette
B
Lebeau
Marie-Reine
MR
Mallaret
Claude-Eric
CE
Bulabois
Sébastien
S
Ducki
Jean-Yves
JY
Cahn
Renée
R
Grillot
Hervé
H
Pelloux
D000389:Air Conditioning / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards; D000391:Air Microbiology; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis / Q000517:prevention & control; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005658:Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006405:Hematology; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D017053:Infection Control / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000302:isolation & purification