Correlating Cleaning Thoroughness with Effectiveness and Briefly Intervening to Affect Cleaning Outcomes: How Clean Is Cleaned?

PLoS One · 2016 · PMC4873012 · PMID 27196635

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approached significanceP = 0.056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Improved removal of bacterial DNA as measured by the 16S rDNA assay was significant (P = 0.046) and the increased removal of viable Gram-negative bacteria as measured by growth of MAC medium approached significance (P = 0.056) ( Table 2A ).

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