How to Use Proper Filtration and Differential Pressure to Help Control Contamination During Health Care Facility Construction
By Jim Rosenthal, CAFS
Between July and September of 1994 technicians in the clinical microbiology laboratory of Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas found Aspergillus niger in 17 clinical samples submitted for 15 patients at the hospital. This caused a great deal of consternation for two reasons:
1. The incidence of Aspergillus niger had [...]
