Researchers used a sample of 39 patient rooms from which a patient infected or colonized with one of three targeted pathogens (VRE , C. difficile and Acinetobacter) had recently been discharged. Researcher then studied cultures taken from the rooms before and after treatment with an automated UV-C emitting device.
Pathogens were reduced at all sites tested, showing UV-C emitting devices to be useful in reducing the bioburden of these pathogens.
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