METHOD FOR ASSESSING EXPOSURE OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGICAL FACTOR ON NURSES WORKING IN LARGE MULTI-FIELD CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/48 C12Q1/06 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves smear seeding from the nasal mucosa on meat infusion agar, incubation at 37°C for 24 hours, measurement of a total amount of microorganisms by counting grown colonies, determination of total microbial contamination of the analysed material expressed in CFU/ml. If the total microbial contamination is more than 10*3 CFU/ml, the exposure of an industrial microbiological factor on the nurse is considered to be damaging, while the derived value of 10*3 CFU/ml and less shows the admissibility of the exposure. The invention can be used for diagnosing the exposure of the industrial microbiological factor of the nurses working in large multi-field children's hospitals, not involved in a non-infectious material or a material suspicious for the microbial contamination of the 3-4^th pathogenicity group, and fungi.

EFFECT: higher diagnostic accuracy.

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