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Long-sleeved medical workers' coats and their microbiota
Michael Berktold1, Astrid Mayr1, Alois Obwegeser2
1Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
American Journal of Infection Control
|June 5, 2018
Abstract:
In this study we aimed to assess the contamination rate of long-sleeved medical workers' coats (N = 100) in a point-prevalence study. Ninety-one percent of the coats were contaminated with normal human flora, but only the minority (9%) showed presence of pathogenic non-multiresistant bacteria. The data of this study may implicate that long-sleeved coats harbor low risk for the treated patients to be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria during medical consultation.