Table 1 Bacterial load reported as CFU/cm2 on the floors and walls before cleaning, after cleaning and after disinfection. Twenty-three cages were sampled per cleaning method
From: A comparison of two cleaning methods applied in a small animal hospital
Surface | Sample | Median | Interquartile range | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Floor | Before scrub cleaning | 6.8 | 3.3–25.3 | 1.1-320.7 |
Floor | Before microfibre cleaning | 9.3 | 5.0–18.0 | 0.9-12826.7 |
Floor | After scrub cleaning | 1.3 | 0.8–2.9 | 0.0-15.6 |
Floor | After microfibre cleaning | 3.7 | 1.8–9.5 | 1.1-203.6 |
Floor | After scrub cleaning and disinfection | 0.6 | 0.4–1.9 | 0.1-8.0 |
Floor | After microfibre cleaning and disinfection | 0.8 | 0.4–1.7 | 0.2–16.2 |
Wall | Before scrub cleaning | 2.8 | 1.7–6.8 | 0.7-133.1 |
Wall | Before microfibre cleaning | 2.5 | 1.3–6.4 | 0.6–32.2 |
Wall | After scrub cleaning | 0.2 | 0.1–0.6 | 0.0-1.5 |
Wall | After microfibre cleaning | 0.7 | 0.4–2.5 | 0.3–17.3 |
Wall | After scrub cleaning and disinfection | 0.4 | 0.0-0.6 | 0.0-1.8 |
Wall | After microfibre cleaning and disinfection | 0.0 | 0.0-0.2 | 0.0-2.9 |