Effectiveness of a plasma treatment device on microbial air quality in a hospital ward, monitored by culture.

Air Microbiology Air Pollution / prevention & control Environmental Monitoring Fungi Hospitals Ireland Plasma Gases
Air sampling Airborne Continuous monitoring Environment

Journal

The Journal of hospital infection
ISSN: 1532-2939
Titre abrégé: J Hosp Infect
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8007166

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Historique:
received: 26 05 2020
revised: 26 10 2020
accepted: 06 11 2020
pubmed: 15 11 2020
medline: 17 7 2021
entrez: 14 11 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This study analysed the effectiveness of plasma treatment on airborne bacteria and surface counts during a 14-day intervention within a four-bedded bay in an adult respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital, Ireland. One-hundred-litre air samples were collected twice daily every weekday for 4 weeks, with settle plates and surface swabs. The plasma treatment did not have an effect on airborne bacteria and fungi that was detectable by culture. However, the possibility that culture-based sampling may be insufficiently sensitive to detect an effect, or that the duration of the study was insufficient for plasma treatment to affect a complex environment, cannot be excluded.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.11.006 PMID: 33188867 PMC: PMC7658605
pubmed: 33188867
pii: S0195-6701(20)30519-3
doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.11.006
pmc: PMC7658605
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Plasma Gases 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

109-112

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

M Fennelly (M)

Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Department of Pathology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Electronic address: mehael.fennelly@umail.ucc.ie.

D J O'Connor (DJ)

School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

S Hellebust (S)

Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

N Murphy (N)

Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.

C Casey (C)

College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

J Eustace (J)

Health Research Board Clinical Research Facility-Cork, Cork, Ireland.

B J Plant (BJ)

Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland; College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

J R Sodeau (JR)

Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

M B Prentice (MB)

Department of Pathology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

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Classifications MeSH

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