Infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...

A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, ...

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs), also called nosocomial infections to better describe the range of places they can occur, have become a major health concern. In the U.S., between 5% and 10% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection prevention efforts at a cancer center reduced some health care-associated infections during the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Research published this year explored the impact of prevention bundles, environmental sampling and patient ...

An electronic, specialist-led, proactive diabetes intervention model reduced blood glucose levels and nosocomial infection incidence among surgical inpatients. Early diabetes management with an ...

2020 JUL 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily-- Investigators publish new report on Nosocomial Infections. According to news reporting originating from ...

Pseudomonas cepacia has recently emerged as an important nosocomial pathogen. We analyzed a national nosocomial infections database, the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system, to ...

Cristiana C. Gomes , MD, BSc, Evangelina Vormittag , MD, PhD, Cleide R. Santos , MD, PhD and Anna S. Levin , MD, PhD Objective. To evaluate whether resistance to third‐generation cephalosporins and/or ...