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Brief report| Volume 42, ISSUE 11, P1229-1232, November 2014

Routine monitoring of adenovirus and norovirus within the health care environment

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    1 Current address: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
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    2 Contributed equally to this study.
    Louise Pankhurst
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    1 Current address: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
    2 Contributed equally to this study.
    Affiliations
    CEGE, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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    2 Contributed equally to this study.
    Elaine Cloutman-Green
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    Address correspondence to Elaine Cloutman-Green, MRes, Microbiology, Level 4 Cameliar Botnar Laboratory, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond St, London WC1N 3JH, UK.
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    2 Contributed equally to this study.
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    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cameliar Botnar Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Prevention and Control, London, UK
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  • Melisa Canales
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    CEGE, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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  • Nikki D'Arcy
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    CEGE, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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  • John C. Hartley
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    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cameliar Botnar Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Prevention and Control, London, UK
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    1 Current address: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
    2 Contributed equally to this study.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.07.028
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      This study investigated the presence of adenovirus and norovirus on ward surfaces using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to assist in the development of evidence-based infection control policy. Screening was carried out weekly for 6 months in the common areas of 2 pediatric wards. Additionally, a one-off screening was undertaken for adenovirus and norovirus on a day unit and for adenovirus only in patient cubicles while occupied. Over the 6-month screening of common areas, 2.4% of samples were positive for adenovirus or norovirus. In rooms occupied with adenovirus-infected children, all cubicle screening sites and almost all swabs were contaminated with adenovirus. In the day unit, 13% of samples were positive. Cleaning and environmental interaction strategies must therefore be designed to control nosocomial transmission of viruses outside of outbreak scenarios.

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      This research was funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no. EP/G029881/1). Cloutman-Green received funding from the National Institute of Health Research (grant no. HCSD10).

      Conflict of interest statement: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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