id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016601-gp259urb Bonadonna, Lucia Analysis of Microorganisms in Hospital Environments and Potential Risks 2017-03-24 .txt text/plain 3523 192 32 Hospital environments are characterized by high infective risk, firstly cause of the compromised immunologic conditions of the patients that make them vulnerable to bacterial, viral, parasitological and fungal opportunistic infections (D'Alessandro et al. The potential transmission of biological matter during surgery operations and medical treatments of infected individuals makes hospital environments strongly designated to become easily contaminated with spread of pathogens among patients (Baglioni and Capolongo 2002) . In addition, technological devices such as hydraulic, heating and air-conditioning systems may represent a potential source of bacteria, fungi (moulds), virus and other organisms if not adequately designed and submitted to a planned preventive maintenance. These difficulties are exacerbated in hospitals where the patient health status, the activities that take place and the potential spread of pathogenic biological agents increase the level of complexity respect to other indoor environments. ./cache/cord-016601-gp259urb.txt ./txt/cord-016601-gp259urb.txt