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Descriptor English: Equipment Contamination
Descriptor Spanish: Contaminación de Equipos
Descriptor contaminación de equipos
Scope note: Presencia de un agente infeccioso en instrumentos, prótesis u otros artículos inanimados.
Descriptor Portuguese: Contaminação de Equipamentos
Descriptor French: Contamination de matériel
Entry term(s): Contamination, Equipment
Contaminations, Equipment
Equipment Contaminations
Tree number(s): N06.850.540
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004866
Scope note: The presence of an infectious agent on instruments, prostheses, or other inanimate articles.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
SN statistics & numerical data
Public MeSH Note: 85
History Note: 85
Related: Fomites MeSH
DeCS ID: 28479
Unique ID: D004866
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1985/01/01
Date of Entry: 1984/04/06
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Equipment Contamination - Preferred
Concept UI M0007634
Scope note The presence of an infectious agent on instruments, prostheses, or other inanimate articles.
Preferred term Equipment Contamination
Entry term(s) Contamination, Equipment
Contaminations, Equipment
Equipment Contaminations



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