Monitoring hand hygiene compliance and providing healthcare workers with feedback
regarding their performance are considered integral parts of multidisciplinary hand hygiene …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was first described in 1961 and in the
following decades it quickly became an important cause of health care-associated infections …

The crucial role of hand hygiene in the prevention of health care–associated infection (HAI)
was initially established independently by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ignaz Semmelweis in …

Despite emerging evidence that dysfunction in the accessory gene regulator (agr) locus is
associated with deleterious outcomes among patients treated with vancomycin for methicillin …

A time-series analysis was performed to identify the impact of bed occupancy rates and
length of hospital stay on the incidence of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI). Between …

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an increasing problem worldwide and need to
be addressed urgently. In the European Union, about 7% of patients in acute care hospitals …

The objectives of this study were to determine perceptions of healthcare workers (HCWs)
about potential sources of hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and the frequency of their …

Nosokomiale Infektionen, die durch multiresistente Erreger (MRE) hervorgerufen werden,
stellen ein zunehmendes Problem im medizinischen Alltag dar. In der Chirurgie ist der …

Die Verbreitung von Methicillinresistenten Sta phylococcusaureusStämmen (MRSA) und
auch anderen multiresistenten Krankheitserregern ist eine große Herausforderung für das …

C. difficile als häufigster Erreger einer nosoko mialen Diarrhö ist ein grampositives,
anaerobes Stäbchenbakterium, das unter ungünstigen Um gebungsbedingungen …