Robert A Lynch
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Recent Articles
1.
Aithinne K, Cooper C, Lynch R, Johnson D
Am J Infect Control
. 2018 Dec;
47(5):515-520.
PMID: 30554881
Introduction: Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of health care-associated gastric illness. Environmental contamination with C difficile spores is a risk factor for contact transmission, and toilet flushing causes such...
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Johnson D, Lynch R, Villanella S, Jones J, Fang H, Mead K, et al.
J Environ Health
. 2018 Apr;
80(3):34-49.
PMID: 29651169
Toilets contaminated with infectious organisms are a recognized contact disease transmission hazard. Previous studies indicate that toilet bowl water can remain contaminated for several flushes after the contamination occurs. This...
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Dong Z, Lynch R, Schaider L
Environ Sci Process Impacts
. 2016 Jan;
18(2):222-36.
PMID: 26729635
Elevated fish mercury (Hg) concentrations in freshwater ecosystems worldwide are a significant human and ecological health concern. Mercury bioaccumulation and biomagnification in lakes and reservoirs are controlled by numerous biogeochemical...
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Johnson D, Mead K, Lynch R, Hirst D
Am J Infect Control
. 2012 Oct;
41(3):254-8.
PMID: 23040490
Background: The potential risks associated with "toilet plume" aerosols produced by flush toilets is a subject of continuing study. This review examines the evidence regarding toilet plume bioaerosol generation and...
5.
Adams N, Johnson D, Lynch R
Am J Infect Control
. 2010 Sep;
39(2):91-7.
PMID: 20864218
Background: Airborne infectious isolation rooms (AIIRs) are maintained at a negative pressure relative to surrounding areas to prevent migration of potentially infectious droplet nuclei. Current US design standards require a...
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Johnson D, Lynch R, Mead K
Am J Infect Control
. 2008 Oct;
37(2):94-100.
PMID: 18926600
Background: It is generally recognized that the health care system does not have adequate isolation capacity to meet the surge in demand during a major outbreak of airborne infectious disease....
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Johnson D, Lynch R
J Occup Environ Hyg
. 2008 Feb;
5(4):271-7.
PMID: 18286424
The containment performance of patient isolation enclosures, particularly expedient surge capacity enclosures, must be verified to protect health care providers and staff, other patients, and hospital visitors. Tracer gas methods...
8.
Phillips M, Elledge B, Basara H, Lynch R, Boatright D
J Environ Health
. 2006 Jun;
68(10):24-30, 55.
PMID: 16779998
Records of restaurant inspections by public health departments provide sequential "snapshots" of conditions in retail food service establishments that can be used to identify risk factors and evaluate the effectiveness...
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Lynch R, Phillips M, Elledge B, Hanumanthaiah S, Boatright D
J Food Prot
. 2005 Feb;
68(1):187-90.
PMID: 15690825
A study was conducted to determine whether the levels of selected microorganisms differed on foods handled by gloved and bare hands at fast food restaurants. Three hundred seventy-one plain flour...
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Lynch R, Elledge B, Griffith C, Boatright D
J Environ Health
. 2003 Sep;
66(2):9-14, 26.
PMID: 12971041
The annual incidence of illness related to food consumption continues to present a challenge to environmental health management. A significant fraction of cases have been attributed to consumption of food...