Microbial air quality in healthcare facilities

Lucia Bonadonna, Rossella Briancesco, Anna Maria Coccia, Pierluigi Meloni, Giuseppina La Rosa, Umberto Moscato

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Abstract

There is increasing evidence that indoor air quality and contaminated surfaces provide an important potential source for transmission of pathogens in hospitals. Airborne hospital microorganisms are apparently harmless to healthy people. Nevertheless, healthcare settings are characterized by different environmental critical conditions and high infective risk, mainly due to the compromised immunologic conditions of the patients that make them more vulnerable to infections. Thus, spread, survival and persistence of microbial communities are important factors in hospital environments affecting health of inpatients as well as of medical and nursing staff. In this paper, airborne and aerosolized microorganisms and their presence in hospital environments are taken into consider-ation, and the factors that collectively contribute to defining the infection risk in these facilities are illustrated.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)6226-6226
Numero di pagine1
RivistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume18
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2021

Keywords

  • Air Microbiology
  • Air Pollution, Indoor
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Facilities
  • Healthcare facilities
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Indoor air
  • Microbial contamination
  • Surface contamination

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