Friday, August 7, 2009
Medical News: X-ray Machines Spread Bugs in ICUs - in Critical Care, General Critical Care from MedPage Today
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Multidrug-resistant bacteria can be spread in the intensive care unit by portable X-ray machines and their operators, Israeli researchers found.
The surfaces of the machines yielded samples that contained resistant Gram-negative bacteria about 40% of the time, according to a single-institution intervention study reported in the August issue of CHEST.
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