. 2022; 32(2): 262-267 | DOI: 10.4274/terh.galenos.2022.79477 | ||||
Is it Really Clean? Investigation of a “No-Touch Button” for Bacterial Contamination by a Different TechniqueAybüke Akaslan Kara1, İlker Devrim1, Nevbahar Demiray2, Yeliz Oruç2, İlknur Çağlar1, Elif Böncüoğlu1, Elif Kıymet1, İlker Yavuz3, Özlem Gamze Gülfidan3, Fahri Yüce Ayhan3, Tanju Çelik4, Nuri Bayram11Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Diseases and Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, İzmir, Turkey2Dr. Behçet Uz Child Disease and Pediatric Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Infection Control Committee, İzmir, Turkey 3Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Diseases and Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Clinic of Clinical Microbiology, İzmir, Turkey 4Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Diseases and Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Emergency Care, İzmir, Turkey Objective: No-touch buttons are generally used by patients, patients care givers and healthcare workers. Principal mechanism is based on opening the doors without touching the surface and is supposed to be clean. The objective of this study was to determine the contamination load of no- touch buttons with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) measurement method and to identify microorganisms using microbiological methods in a tertiary pediatric research hospital. Aybüke Akaslan Kara, İlker Devrim, Nevbahar Demiray, Yeliz Oruç, İlknur Çağlar, Elif Böncüoğlu, Elif Kıymet, İlker Yavuz, Özlem Gamze Gülfidan, Fahri Yüce Ayhan, Tanju Çelik, Nuri Bayram. Is it Really Clean? Investigation of a “No-Touch Button” for Bacterial Contamination by a Different Technique. . 2022; 32(2): 262-267 Sorumlu Yazar: Aybüke Akaslan Kara, Türkiye |
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