Open AccessMicrobiological surveillance of operation theatres: Five year retrospective analysis from a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India
Author(s) -
Dipender Kaur Najotra,
Aneeta Singh Malhotra,
Poonam Slathia,
Shivani Raina,
Ashok Dhar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of applied and basic medical research/international journal of applied and basic medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-9606
pISSN - 2229-516X
DOI - 10.4103/ijabmr.ijabmr_281_16
Subject(s) - contamination , medicine , tertiary care , coagulase , staphylococcus , staphylococcus aureus , cons , veterinary medicine , retrospective cohort study , microbiology and biotechnology , emergency medicine , surgery , biology , bacteria , ecology , genetics , computer science , programming language
Microbiological contamination of air and environment in the operation theaters (OTs) are major risk factor for surgical site and other hospital-associated infections.