Imagine you are a physician doing rounds in a hospital. You and a colleague walk into the room of a patient infected with MRSA. You are careful to...
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Hospitals and other healthcare facilities face a difficult quandary when it comes to selecting environmental surfaces to accommodate patients, guests...
Two important news articles this week took a long look at nursing homes. One examined the deadly impact of the pandemic on vulnerable nursing home...
We experience the ickiness and inconvenience of biofilms every day. From slow drains to tooth plaque, biofilms surround us because bacteria surround...
In last week's post, we examined the three things required for bacteria to form a biofilm: Moisture, nutrients, and a surface. Once these biofilms...
When the cases of COVID-19 started to explode in the spring of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended reporting of...
Imagine a wandering nomadic tribe, toiling by day to find enough food to survive, sleeping only in short bursts in attempts to avoid predators. One...
In today's intense search for products that can help control the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, the need for testing virucidal efficacy...
One of the fastest-growing research sectors is the investigation of the human microbiome. We read articles about using the microbiome to keep us...
As weather in the Northern Hemisphere gets cooler, our flu season begins. While social distancing and mask-wearing has kept the flu season at reduced...
There are may different pathogens that cause HAIs. Researchers have studied which of these infectious agents tend to cause infections, how those...
Over the past week, firefighters have been working to control record setting fires throughout California. These are lethal fires, consuming entire...