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Rapid Monitoring by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for Pathogenic Aspergillus During Carpet Removal From a Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alice N. Neely ,
Vince Gallardo ,
Ed Barth ,
Richard A. Haugland ,
Glenn D. Warden  and
Stephen J. Vesper
Alice N. Neely*
Affiliation:
Shriners Burns Hospital and the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Vince Gallardo
Affiliation:
National Risk Management Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ed Barth
Affiliation:
National Risk Management Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Richard A. Haugland
Affiliation:
National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
Glenn D. Warden
Affiliation:
Shriners Burns Hospital and the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Stephen J. Vesper
Affiliation:
National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
*
Shriners Burns Hospital, 3229 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3095
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Abstract

Monitoring for pathogenic Aspergillus species using a rapid, highly sensitive, quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique during carpet removal in a burn unit provided data that allowed patients to be safely returned to the refloored area sooner than if only conventional culture monitoring had been used.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 2004 , pp. 350 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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