ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2019
Self-Disinfecting Copper Beds Sustain Terminal Cleaning and Disinfection Effects throughout Patient Care.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evidence Map and Systematic Review of Disinfection Efficacy on Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Antimicrobial surface coating in the emergency department as protective technology for infection control (ASEPTIC): a pilot randomized controlled trial.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2024Trial
- Context-dependent effects of antimicrobial coatings on microbial load and bacterial community composition on public high-touch surfaces.Microbiome · 2026Article
- Environmental hygiene and healthcare-associated infection: a time-series study based on generalized additive model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Environmental hygiene strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Review
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- Copper-coated hospital surfaces: reduction of total bacterial loads and resistant Acinetobacter spp.AMB Express · 2022Article
- Poly-Gamma-Glutamic Acid Secretion Protects Bacillus subtilis from Zinc and Copper Intoxication.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Synthesis and assessment of copper-based nanoparticles as a surface coating agent for antiviral properties against SARS-CoV-2.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- From Copper Tolerance to Resistance inGenes · 2022Review
- Can Copper Products and Surfaces Reduce the Spread of Infectious Microorganisms and Hospital-Acquired Infections?Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- Brass Alloys: Copper-Bottomed Solutions against Hospital-Acquired Infections?Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- A Metatranscriptomics Survey of Microbial Diversity on Surfaces Post-Intervention of cleanSURFACES® Technology in an Intensive Care Unit.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
- Copper Surfaces in Biofilm Control.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Microbial burden associated with near-patient touch surfaces results in a greater risk of health care-associated infections (HAIs). Acute care beds may be a critical fomite, as traditional plastic surfaces harbor the highest concentrations of bacteria associated with high-touch surfaces in a hospital room's patient zone. Five high-touch intensive care unit (ICU) bed surfaces encountered by patients, health care workers, and visitors were monitored by routine culture to assess the effect U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)-registered antimicrobial copper materials have on the microbial burden. Despite both daily and discharge cleaning and disinfection, each control bed's plastic surfaces exceeded bacterial concentrations recommended subsequent to terminal cleaning and disinfection (TC&D) of 2.5 aerobic CFU/cm
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