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Eradicating pathogens from environmental surfaces in hospitals is a daily fight. Keeping bacteria from reproducing on surfaces, finding reservoirs in...
Posts about Antibiotic Resistance (2):
As a response to the growing global and national threat of antibiotic resistance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a...
We've covered Candida auris in this blog before. Not only has it been one of the pathogens of concern cited by the Centers for Disease Control and...
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Advisory addresses an increase in "extensively-drug-resistant" (XDR) Shigella, the...
On a fall day in 1928, a window was left open in a London laboratory, letting in a cool breeze. Carried on that breeze were microscopic spores of...
In a widely-circulated interview, President Biden stated that the pandemic was, in effect, over. While not an official statement and also clarified...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report addressing the impact COVID-19 has had on antimicrobial resistance....
One of the tools available to infection preventionists, hospital epidemiologists and healthcare practitioners is the antibiogram. While not all...
A study demonstrated that regular soap has the same impact as antibacterial soap at killing bacterial during hand washing. Today we'll explore this...
The infection control landscape is difficult to navigate without an understanding of the key terms used by experts in the field. Some of these terms...
Most of the attention regarding antibiotic-resistant MRSA is found in hospitals and healthcare settings, places where strains of the common ...