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"Cloud" Health-Care Workers

Year: 2001

Type: review

Abstract: Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections. Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A streptococci have caused outbreaks of surgical site infection by airborne dispersal. Outbreaks have been associated with skin colonization or viral upper respiratory tract infection in a phenomenon of airborne dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus called the "cloud" phenomenon. This review summarizes the data supporting the existence of cloud health-care workers.

Source: Emerging infectious diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid0702.010218

Authors: Robert J. Sherertz, Stefano Bassetti, Barbara Bassetti-Wyss

Institutions: Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest University

Language: English

Topic: Infection Control in Healthcare

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases