Effect of thermal control of dry fomites on regulating the survival of human pathogenic bacteria responsible for nosocomial infections

• Tomoko Shimoda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoko Shimoda, Torahiko Okubo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Torahiko Okubo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoko Shimoda, Torahiko Okubo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yoshiki Enoeda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Rika Yano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Shinji Nakamura,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratory of Morphology and Image Analysis, Biomedical Research Center, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Jeewan Thapa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hiroyuki@med.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3723-3361

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