Biofilm growth on the Lopez enteral feeding valve cultured in enteral nutrition: potential implications for medical-surgical patients, nursing care, and research
Solseng, T.; Vinson, H.; Gibbs, P.; Greenwald, B.
Medsurg Nursing Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses 18(4): 225-227; 233
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1092-0811 PMID: 20552848 Document Number: 631301
Medical-surgical patients may receive enteral nutrition via feeding tubes. This research study determined Pseudomonas aeruginosa can develop a bacterial biofilm on the Lopez enteral feeding valve in 3 days when cultured in enteral nutrition. Biofilms can cause nosocomial infections.