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Surveillance practices and air-sampling strategies to address healthcare-associated invasive mold infections in Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network hospitals—United States, 2020

Authors :
Janet Glowicz
Brendan R Jackson
Karlyn D. Beer
Kenneth R. Mead
Jeremy A W Gold
Source :
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 43:1708-1711
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021.

Abstract

With this survey, we investigated healthcare-associated invasive mold infection (HA-IMI) surveillance and air sampling practices in US acute-care hospitals. More than half of surveyed facilities performed HA-IMI surveillance and air sampling. HA-IMI surveillance was more commonly performed in academic versus nonacademic facilities. HA-IMI case definitions and sampling strategies varied widely among respondents.

Details

ISSN :
15596834 and 0899823X
Volume :
43
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....393d48c1cdac6f1f2b0ac7fbb695ca43
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.285