Contaminated stethoscopes: a potential source of nosocomial infections

Yale J Biol Med. 1972 Dec;45(6):600-4.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Auscultation / instrumentation*
  • Cross Infection*
  • Disease Reservoirs*
  • Erwinia / isolation & purification
  • Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Klebsiella / isolation & purification
  • Medical Staff, Hospital
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / isolation & purification
  • Serratia marcescens / isolation & purification
  • Staphylococcus / isolation & purification