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2001 Mar-Apr;7 (2): 241-4.

"Cloud" health-care workers.

R J Sherertz, S Bassetti, B Bassetti-Wyss
Author Information
  1. R J Sherertz: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1042, USA. sherertz@wfubmc.edu
PMID: 11294715 DOI: 10.3201/eid0702.010218

Abstract

Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections. Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A streptococci have caused outbreaks of surgical site infection by airborne dispersal. Outbreaks have been associated with skin colonization or viral upper respiratory tract infection in a phenomenon of airborne dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus called the "cloud" phenomenon. This review summarizes the data supporting the existence of cloud health-care workers.

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Grants

  1. R01 AI-46558/NIAID NIH HHS

MeSH Term

Bordetella pertussis
Disease Outbreaks
Health Personnel
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
Staphylococcal Infections
Streptococcal Infections
Streptococcus pyogenes
United States
Whooping Cough
Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. Review
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