Brady RRW, Verran J, Damani NN, Gibb AP: Review of mobile communication device as potential reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens. J Hosp Infect. 2009, 71: 295-300. 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.12.009.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dancer SJ: Importance of the environment in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition: the case for hospital cleaning. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008, 8: 101-113. 10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70241-4.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dumford DM, Nerandzic MM, Eckstein BC, Donskey CJ: What is on that keyboard? Detecting hidden environmental reservoirs of Clostridium difficile during an outbreak associated with North American pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type I strains. Am J Infect Control. 2009, 37: 15-19. 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.07.009.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Weber DJ, Rutala WA, Miller MB, Huslage K, Sickbert-Bennett E: Role of hospital surfaces in the transmission of emerging health care-associated pathogens: Norovirus, Clostridium difficile, and Acinetobacter species. Am J Infect Control. 2010, 38: S25-S33. 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.04.196.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Falk PS, Winnike J, Woodmansee C, Desai M, Mayhall CG: Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a burn unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2000, 21: 575-582. 10.1086/501806.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Goodman ER, Platt R, Bass R, Onderdonk AB, Yokoe DS, Huang SS: Impact of environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care units. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008, 29: 593-599. 10.1086/588566.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
van der Mee-Marquet N, Girard S, Lagarrigue F, Leroux I, Voyer I, Bloc D, Besnier JM, Quentin R: Multiresistant Enterobacter cloacae outbreak in an intensive care unit associated with therapeutic beds. Crit Care. 2006, 10: 405-406. 10.1186/cc4835.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hinüber C, Kleemann C, Friederichs RJ, Haubold L, Scheibe HJ, Schuelke T, Boehlert C, Baumann MJ: Biocompatibility and mechanical properties of diamond-like coatings on cobalt-chromium-molybdenum steel and titanium-aluminum-vanadium biomedical alloys. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2010, 95: 388-400.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Rose SF, Okere S, Hanlon GW, Lloyd AW, Lewis AL: Bacterial adhesion to phosphorylcholine-based polymers with varying cationic charge and the effect of heparin pre-adsorption. J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2005, 16: 1003-1015. 10.1007/s10856-005-4755-y.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Darouiche RO, Mansouri MD, Gawande PV, Madhyastha S: Antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy of triclosan and DispersinB combination. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009, 64: 88-93. 10.1093/jac/dkp158.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Domek MJ, LeChevallier MW, Cameron SC, McFeters GA: Evidence for the role of copper in the injury process of coliform bacteria in drinking water. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1984, 48: 289-293.
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Maki DG: In vitro studies of a novel antimicrobial luer-activated needless connector for prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2010, 50: 1580-1587. 10.1086/652764.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Klibanov AM: Permanently microbicidal materials coatings. J Mater Chem. 2007, 17: 2479-2482. 10.1039/b702079a.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Atiyeh BS, Costagliola M, Hayek SN, Dibo SA: Effect of silver on burn wound infection control and healing: review of the literature. Burns. 2007, 33: 139-148. 10.1016/j.burns.2006.06.010.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Silver S: Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2003, 27: 341-353. 10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00047-0.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Plumridge A, Hesse SJ, Watson AJ, Lowe KC, Stratford M, Archer DB: The weak acid preservative sorbic acid inhibits conidial germination and mycelial growth of Aspergillus niger through intracellular acidification. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004, 70: 3506-3511. 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3506-3511.2004.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Zollfrank C, Gutbrod K, Wechsler P, Guggenbichler JP: Antimicrobial activity of transition metal acid MoO3 prevents microbial growth on material surfaces. Mat Sci Engin. 2011, 32: 47-54.
Article
Google Scholar
Maki DG, Weise CE, Sarafin HW: A semiquantative culture method for identifying intravenous catheter-related-infection. N Engl J Med. 1977, 296: 1305-1309. 10.1056/NEJM197706092962301.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gillespie SH, McHugh TD: The biological cost of antimicrobial resistance. Trends Microbiol. 1997, 5: 337-339. 10.1016/S0966-842X(97)01101-3.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar