Operating theatre attire (scrub suits) worn outside the operating theatre: infection risk or not?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: hhumphreys@rcsi.ie.
² Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK.
³ Academic Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Operating Theatre Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ErasmusMC Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.

H Humphreys et al. J Hosp Infect. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb:108:209-211.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.002. Epub 2020 Dec 5.

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: hhumphreys@rcsi.ie.
² Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK.
³ Academic Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Operating Theatre Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ErasmusMC Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.

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