Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rigorous disinfection efforts and improved sink hygiene may prevent MDRO spread in hospitals. Efforts require a ...

America’s age 65 and older population is expected to nearly double in size in the coming decades, from 49 million in 2016 to 95 million in 2060. With this aging of the population comes the reality of ...

"Prescribing high-risk antibiotics to nursing home patients may be linked with higher likelihood of being colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) or having MDRO-contaminated rooms," ...

Implementation of multiple prevention interventions could potentially reduce multidrug-resistant organism infections in acute care hospitals, according to new findings published in the American ...

The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) across global healthcare networks poses a serious threat to hospitalized individuals. Strategies to limit the emergence and spread of ...

More than 50% of nursing home residents may be colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms, CDC says. Nursing home residents are at increased risk of developing infection with multidrug-resistant ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(8):653-679. Currently, there is a growing population, highly susceptible to infections, that are exposed to wide antibiotic pressure, increasing the antibiotic ...

What's worse than getting exposed to a kind of bacteria that modern antibiotics can't kill? Getting exposed to more than one -- because they may work together to cause an infection, new research ...

More than one-third of healthcare workers were contaminated with multi-drug resistant organisms, or MDRO, after caring for patients colonized or infected with the bacteria, according to a study in ...

In the single-center PREMIX clinical trial, most renal transplant recipients were negative for multidrug-resistant pathogens shortly after receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), with longer ...

UVD cleanings decrease MDROs rates in hospitals Incidence rates of MRSA, CD and MDR gram-negative organisms were also lower with ultraviolet environmental disinfection. HealthDay News – Use of ...