Bacterial migration through punctured surgical gloves under real surgical conditions.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on July 01, 2010

Authors

Nils-Olaf Hübner1, Anna-Maria Goerdt, Natalie Stanislawski, Ojan Assadian, Claus-Dieter Heidecke, Axel Kramer, Lars Ivo Partecke

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany. nhuebner@uni-greifswald.de

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