Yamamoto, Kasumi Boki Fujii, Keisuke Mizumoto, Kazuhiro Tanioku, Tadashi Kawamata, Tomoyuki
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JA clinical reports
Olanexidine glucuronide (Olanedine®), an antiseptic solution may cause skin dermatitis around one week after disinfection. Although removal after the procedure is recommended to avoid skin dermatitis, whether it is effective for preventing skin dermatitis has not been documented in detail in the literature. We encountered two cases of delayed-onset...
Xie, Xing
Presented online via YouTube and in-person on February 7, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, room 1116. / Xing Xie is an assistant professor and the Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Xie’s research interests center around the applications of environmental biotechnology an...
Kim, Seohae
School of Energy and Chemical Engineering (Energy Engineering (Battery Science and Technology)) / close
Demeersseman, N; Saegeman, V; Devriese, H; Schuermans, A; 10090;
Ultraviolet (UV)-C light for disinfection has experienced a surge in popularity since the outbreak of COVID-19. Currently, many different UV-C systems, with varied properties that impact disinfection performance, are available on the market. Therefore this review aims to bundle the available information on UV-C disinfection to obtain an overview of...
Bhattacharya, Sayan Abhishek, Kumar Samiksha, Shilpi Sharma, Prabhakar
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Journal of hazardous materials advances
This paper explains the transmission of SARS-CoV and influences of several environmental factors in the transmission process. The article highlighted several methods of collection, sampling and monitoring/estimation as well as surveillance tool for detecting SARS-CoV in wastewater streams. In this context, WBE (Wastewater based epidemiology) is fou...
de Souza Araújo, Isaac J Patel, Tamannaben Bukhari, Amal Sanz, Carolina K Fenno, J Christopher Ribeiro, Juliana S Bottino, Marco C
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Odontology
This investigation aimed to synthesize poly(D,L-lactide) (PLA)-based fibrous scaffolds containing natural essential oils (i.e., linalool and citral) and determine their antimicrobial properties and cytocompatibility as a clinically viable cell-friendly disinfection strategy for regenerative endodontics. PLA-based fibrous scaffolds were fabricated v...
Kopp, Jennifer Cawcutt, Kelly A Musil, Lauren Huang, Xiaofan Minard, Charles G Hetland, Breanna
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American journal of infection control
Current literature identifies mobile phones of staff as potential vectors for hospital-acquired infection. A pre-post, quasi-experimental study was conducted in a 20 bed intensive care unit (ICU). Surface bioburden of personal and shared mobile phones was estimated with a luminometer, expressed in Relative Light Units (RLU). Effects of a simple san...
Ibáñez-Cervantes, Gabriela Cruz-Cruz, Clemente Durán-Manuel, Emilio Mariano Loyola-Cruz, Miguel Ángel Cureño-Díaz, Mónica Alethia Castro-Escarpulli, Graciela Lugo-Zamudio, Gustavo Esteban Rojo-Gutiérrez, María Isabel Razo-Blanco Hernández, Dulce Milagros López-Ornelas, Adolfo
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American journal of infection control
Medical devices can be reservoirs of multidrug-resistant bacteria that may be involved in the acquisition of infections since bacteria with the ability to form biofilms that are difficult to eradicate, mainly in mechanical ventilators. The aim of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of O3 against biofilms of bacteria ESKAPE group through disinfec...
Biswal, Manisha Gupta, Parakriti Singh, Charu Vig, Shashi Saini, P S
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American journal of infection control
Hospital water is often an overlooked yet preventable source of hospital-acquired infections. CDC recommends annual cleaning of water reservoirs in health care settings. In our tertiary care hospital, periodic disinfection and microbiological surveillance of all the water tanks in hospital premises is carried out. The aim of this paper is to report...
Tiwari, Ananda Phan, Nati Tandukar, Sarmila Ashoori, Razieh Thakali, Ocean Mousazadesh, Milad Dehghani, Mohammad Hadi Sherchan, Samendra P
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Environmental science and pollution research international
As the world continues to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging evidence indicates that respiratory transmission may not the only pathway in which the virus can be spread. This review paper aims to summarize current knowledge surrounding possible fecal-oral transmission of SARS-CoV-2. It covers recent evidence of proliferation of SARS-CoV-2 in ...
