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.
Brenier-Pinchart
Marie-Pierre
MP
Parasitology and Mycology Laboratory, Grenoble Universitary Hospital and Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. MPBrenierPinchart@chu-grenoble.fr
Coussa-Rivière
Laurence
L
Lebeau
Bernadette
B
Mallaret
Marie-Reine
MR
Bulabois
Claude-Eric
CE
Ducki
Sébastien
S
Cahn
Jean-Yves
JY
Grillot
Renée
R
Pelloux
Hervé
H
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