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Operating Room Attire Journal PDF
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Espinosa V, Dutta O, McElrath C, et al. Type III Masks prevent droplets containing Reply to Hambraeus and Lytsy
interferon is a critical regulator of innate antifungal
bacteria from the upper respiratory tract
immunity. Sci Immunol 2017; 2:pii:eaan5357. To the Editor—We thank Hambr
from falling into the operating wound,
aeus and Lytsy [1] for their interest in our
Correspondence: D. P. Kontoyiannis, Department of Infectious which is regarded as a direct route of
lighthearted review of what to wear in the
Diseases, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, infection, not an airborne infection.
Houston, TX 77030 (dkontoyi@mdanderson.org). operating room (OR) [2]. As noted in our
Bacteria from saliva are seldom the cause
Clinical Infectious Diseases® 2018;67(1):157–9 piece, we became interested in this after
of infection in the tissue operated on in
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press for some rather dogmatic and poorly sup-
the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. general surgery. Thus, masks are used
For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. ported demands regarding attire in the
merely to protect the operating team.
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy039 OR [3, 4], which were subsequently turned
CORRESPONDENCE • CID 2018:67 (1 July) • 159