Automated UV-C Device Reduces Infectious Pathogens In Hospital Patient Rooms By More

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Results of an eight-month hospital study, "Room Decontamination with UV Radiation," were published in the October 2010 issue of "Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology." The study evaluated the ability of an automated UV device, Tru-D, to decontaminate patient rooms contaminated with MRSA, VRE, C. difficile and a MDR strain of Acinetobacter baumannii. The research team of William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH, Maria F. Gergen, MT (ASCP), and David J. Weber, MD, MPH, conducted the study at University of North Carolina Health Care from January 21 through September 21, 2009...


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