Mobile air-decontamination unit and filamentous fungal load in the hematology ward: How efficient at the low-activity mode?

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Brenier-Pinchart, Marie-Pierre | Coussa-Rivière, Laurence | Lebeau, Bernadette | Mallaret, Marie-Reine | Bulabois, Claude-Eric | Ducki, Sébastien | Cahn, Jean-Yves | Grillot, Renée | Pelloux, Hervé

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International audience. Air treatment with a mobile Plasmair air-decontamination unit significantly reduces the fungal spore load in hematology wards. We report that this system used at a low aspiration flow does not perform total biodecontamination against filamentous fungi. Moreover, the filamentous fungus load remaining in rooms equipped with this mobile air-decontamination unit is lowest in wards in which other preventive measures against nosocomial filamentous fungal infections are implemented.

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