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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (288000)5/25/2004 9:25:51 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Doctors' ties may store bacteria
Doctors may be unwittingly spreading infections through their ties, warn US researchers.
The New York Hospital Queens team found nearly half of the ties worn by medical workers harboured disease-causing bacteria.

The potential for ties to transmit the bacteria to patients must be considered, say the researchers.

Dr Steven Nurkin reported his findings at the a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

The researchers analysed ties worn by physicians, their assistants, medical students and security staff working at their hospital.

Bacteria

Almost half (47.6%) of the ties worn by clinicians were found to harbour bacteria that can cause disease.

This was eight times the odds of ties worn by security staff from the same hospital being infected.
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