Tag: Infection control

A systematic review and meta-analysis finds pooled sensitivity of 86 percent and specificity of 98 percent for automated hand hygiene ...

A survey of 1,505 Swiss healthcare workers found widespread concern about antibiotic resistance nationally but far less about their own ...

A prospective observational study in a Swedish intensive care unit found no genomically confirmed cross-contamination of ESBL-producing Enterobacterales when carriers ...

A new narrative review explains why sepsis after major burn injury affects up to 39 percent of patients, evades standard ...

A retrospective before-after study at a Hungarian septic surgery unit found a multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship program cut drug procurement costs ...

Whole-genome sequencing of 53 linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis cases at two Austrian hospitals revealed five distinct genomic clusters across three sequence ...

A Dutch hospital study found two closely related blaVIM-2-encoding plasmids persisting for nine years in sink drains and clinical isolates ...

A six-month outbreak of penicillin-susceptible, exfoliative toxin A-producing Staphylococcus aureus ST15 affected 20 infants in a German neonatal intensive care ...

A meta-analysis of 37 studies found high early infection-control and short-term catheter-salvage rates with antimicrobial lock therapy in adults with ...

A meta-analysis of 28 randomized trials found lower odds of catheter-related bloodstream infection with catheter-type and dressing interventions, but not ...

A retrospective study of 970 intensive care patients in Guangdong, China, found that anaemia and prior antifungal drug exposure independently ...

A new study finds hospital-acquired infections after cardiovascular surgery raise costs unevenly across diagnosis-related groups, with non-ventilator lower respiratory infections ...

A paired phenotypic and genomic analysis of 110 multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from South India reveals that clinical strains express ...

A study of 82 clinical isolates from an Egyptian hospital shows that combined PCR detection of rmpA, rmpA2, iucA, and ...

A six-year retrospective cohort study at a Palestinian tertiary hospital found that half of 36 patients with laboratory-confirmed Candida auris ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis remains one of the world's most stubborn infectious diseases, and a central challenge for clinicians is telling apart ...

Vietnamese researchers show that a bedside CRE screening protocol using selective chromogenic agar and a portable incubator, performed by nurses ...

A randomized pilot study in Beijing found that biweekly hydrogen peroxide shock disinfection kept dental unit waterlines fully compliant with ...

A global meta-analysis of 120 studies finds vancomycin-resistant enterococci in 18.4 percent of patients with haematological malignancies, with prevalence approaching ...

A Swedish study documents how a decade-long tobramycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit was finally resolved ...