• Antimicrobial environmental surfaces in healthcare settings: Can they really be beneficial?

      Date: October 27th, 2016

      Time: 10:30 am PST

      Speaker: Prof. Jean-Yves Maillard, University of Cardiff, Wales

      Objectives:

      • Discuss microbial bioburden on surfaces and infection
      • Discuss current interventions to decrease microbial bioburden from surfaces
      • Review common antimicrobial environmental surfaces used in healthcare settings
      • Understand test protocols used to make antimicrobial surface claim
      • Present results from novel antimicrobial surfaces test protocols that mimic conditions found in practice
      • Present results of field trial using antimicrobial surfaces

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