Operating theatre attire (scrub suits) worn outside the operating theatre: infection risk or not?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: hhumphreys@rcsi.ie.
• ² Healthcare Infection Society, London, UK.
• ³ Academic Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁴ Operating Theatre Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ErasmusMC Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.