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Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs

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Emily

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-hospital-disinfection.html
Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs

January 1, 2013 in Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs...
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Source study:
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/27.abstract?sid=bf062eae-4a4d-4dd2-952d-6ec89ba795d6
Catherine L. Passaretti,
Jonathan A. Otter,
Nicholas G. Reich,
Jessica Myers,
John Shepard,
Tracy Ross,
Karen C. Carroll,
Pam Lipsett,
and Trish M. Perl

An Evaluation of Environmental Decontamination With Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor for Reducing the Risk of Patient Acquisition of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Clin Infect Dis. (2013) 56(1): 27-35 first published online October 5, 2012 doi:10.1093/cid/cis839
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