Transmission of pathogen can occur in various ways including physical contact, contaminated food, body fluids, objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector organisms. Infectious diseases that ...

Worldwide, more than 500,000 children under age 5 die each year from gastrointestinal bacterial infections, largely in ...

You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...

Healthcare workers who wash their uniforms at home may be unknowingly contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant ...

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Improving hand hygiene is crucial for preventing the spread of AMR organisms, alongside ongoing research into vaccines and ...

A team of infectious disease specialists and environmental engineers at Université Claude Bernard Lyon's, École Centrale de ...

serve as reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens and vectors for cross-transmission. Banknotes can serve as a potential source of pathogens, and paper currency recovered from hospitals was highly ...

While still early in the data collection process, researchers for the Wild and Domestic Sheep Comingling Project have ...

Alternatively, health care facilities could use on-site industrial machines to launder uniforms to improve patient safety and control the spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The authors add ...