Emergency Evacuation of Immunocompromised Patients From a Hematology Unit Following Flooding of High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Filtration

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 May;38(5):626-629. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.18. Epub 2017 Feb 9.

Authors

Philippe Saliou¹, Jean-Christophe Ianotto², Marie-Anne Couturier², Gaëlle Guillerm², Hervé Le Bars³, Dorothée Quinio⁴, Solène Le Gal⁴, Raoul Baron¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Infection Control Unit,Brest Teaching Hospital,Brest,France.
² 3Oncology and Hematology Institute,Brest University Hospital,Brest,France.
³ 5Department of Microbiology,Brest Teaching Hospital,Brest,France.
⁴ 6University of Brest,Groupe d'Etude Des Interactions Hote-Pathogene,Brest,France.

PMID: 28179033
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.18

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Air Filters / microbiology*
Air Microbiology*
Air Pollutants, Occupational / analysis*
Cross Infection / prevention & control
Environmental Monitoring
Floods
France
Fungi / isolation & purification
Hematology
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Particulate Matter

Substances

Air Pollutants, Occupational
Particulate Matter