The bacterial contamination rate of glucose meter test strips in the hospital setting

Khalid A. Al-Rubeaan; Amr T. M. Saeb; Dhekra M. AlNaqeb; Hamed M. AlQumaidi; Turki A. AlMogbel

doi:10.15537/smj.2016.9.14950

Article Information

vol. 37 no. 9 985-995

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.14950

PubMed

27570855

Published By

Saudi Medical Journal

Online ISSN

1658-3175

History

Received March 9, 2016
Accepted June 29, 2016
Published online September 1, 2016.

Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

Khalid A. Al-Rubeaan, MD, FRCP(C)⇑,
Amr T. M. Saeb, MSC, PhD,
Dhekra M. AlNaqeb, MBBS, MRes,
Hamed M. AlQumaidi, MBBS, SPIM and
Turki A. AlMogbel, MBBS, ABFM

From the Departments of Internal Medicine (Al-Rubeaan, AlQumaidi), Research (AlNaqeb), University Diabetes Center, College of Medicine, Genetics and Biotechnology (Saeb), Strategic Center for Diabetes Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, and Buraydah Diabetes Center (AlMogbel), King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Buraydah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Khalid Al-Rubeean, Department of Internal Medicine, University Diabetes Centre, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: krubeaan{at}dsrcenter.org

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