Author:
Bogdan-Ioan Coculescu,Elena Claudia Coculescusup
Abstract
Assessment of the microbial load of the operating environment during daily pre-, intra-, and post-operative procedures in a surgical department of a military emergency hospital in Bucharest showed the bacterial contamination of intra-operative air by increasing the number of bacteria above the allowed maximum level and the detection of a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli).
Publisher
Heighten Science Publications Corporation
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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