Surface sampling using a single swab method.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Journal of Hospital Infection
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1984
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 386–390
- Identifiers
- PMID: 6085093
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
The bacterial counts obtained from a series of one to seven swabbings of a contaminated surface showed a consistent relationship to the total count recovered. An equation was derived which can be applied to the bacterial count found by a single swabbing to obtain a quantitative estimate of the total count.
