Contamination of hospital sinks with microbial pathogens presents a serious potential threat
to patients, but our understanding of sink colonization dynamics is largely based on infection …

Compelling evidence suggests a contribution of the sink environment to the transmission of
opportunistic pathogens from the hospital environment to patients in neonatal intensive care …

Health care facility floors and sink drains and other wastewater drainage sites are
universally contaminated with potential pathogens and there are plausible mechanisms by …

Water systems in health care facilities can form reservoirs for Gram-negative bacteria. While
planning a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), we performed a retrospective …

Several retrospective studies have identified hospital sinks as reservoirs of Gram-negative
bacteria. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the bacterial transmission …

As reported in recent articles in this journal and others, hospital wastewater plumbing
systems (WPS) are increasingly being highlighted as an important source of nosocomial …

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) has emerged as a major and often
fatal cause of bloodstream infections among hospitalized patients in low-and middle-income …

Background Each year in the United States there are approximately 100,000,000
outpatient/inpatient surgical procedures. Each of these procedures involves contact by a …

Die Radiologie gewinnt in Bezug auf Infektionsprävention zunehmend an Bedeutung, da die
vielen bildgebenden Verfahren essenziell für die Diagnostik und Behandlung von …

Healthcare-associated infections due to antibiotic-resistant organisms pose an acute and
rising threat to critically ill and immunocompromised patients. To evaluate reservoirs of …