Researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria compared the microbial diversity of
highly sanitized environments, including an intensive care unit, to public and private …

There is a growing concern within the health care sector, academia, policymakers, and the
general public about the risk of antibiotic resistance arising from environmental …

Background Disinfectants are widely used in medicine, veterinary medicine, and the food
processing industry. Increasingly, disinfectants are included in consumer products. Broad …

• Basic infection-control strategies, such as proper hand hygiene and appropriate cleaning
of the environment and shared equipment, reduce the transmission of antimicrobialresistant …

Indoor environments, where people spend most of their time, are characterized by a specific
microbial community, the indoor microbiome. Most indoor environments are connected to …

Objectives In hospital hygiene, it remains unclear to what extent surface contamination might
represent a potential reservoir for nosocomial pathogens. This study investigates the effects …

Background Organisms causing healthcare associated infections can be sourced from the
inanimate environment around patients. Residing in a biofilm increases the chances of …

Traditional, environment-based hospital hygiene has long been considered a weak science,
usually arising from the creation of a global hypothesis, which is poetically elaborated upon …

Sarah Bell-West Clorox Healthcare Resistance to antimicrobial agents, especially
antibiotics, is a major public health concern throughout the world. In the United States alone …

Background MDROs frequently contaminate hospital environments. We performed a
multicenter cluster-randomized, crossover trial of two methods for intensive monitoring of …