Surface area matters: An evaluation of swabs and surface area for environmental surface sampling of healthcare pathogens

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  West, Rolieria M. ; Shams, Alicia M. ; Chan, Monica Y. ; Rose, Laura J. ; Noble-Wang, Judith A.
• Description:
  Flocked and foam swabs were used to sample five healthcare pathogens from three sizes of steel and plastic coupons; 26 cm|, 323 cm|, and 645 cm|. As surface area increased, 1-2 log| decrease in recovered organisms (| < .05) was observed. Sampling 26-cm| yielded the optimal median percent of pathogens recovered.
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Health Facilities Humans Specimen Handling
• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 44(5):834-836
• Pubmed ID:
  35695177
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11005194
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  44
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5f6fb3d1bf88ae9170f8b5f4caa9fac681be6ec47d1b97e1c1da56d2cdff437c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/154165/cdc_154165_DS1.pdf
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