Background During the past two decades, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) has become increasingly common as a source of nosocomial infections. Most …

Background: The intensive care environment in hospitals has been the subject of significant
empirical and qualitative research in the 2005–2020 period. Particular attention has been …

Background Health-care workers have been implicated in nosocomial outbreaks of
Staphylococcus aureus, but the dearth of evidence from non-outbreak situations means that …

Abstract Background. Strategies to prevent Staphylococcus aureus infection in hospitals
focus on patient-to-patient transmission. We used whole-genome sequencing to investigate …

Background: Prevalence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDROs) continues to
increase, while infection control gaps in healthcare settings facilitate their transmission …

Infection preventionists (IP) play an increasingly important role in preventing health care-
associated infection in the physical environment associated with new construction or …

Aim: Our review evaluated both the effects of single-occupancy patient rooms (SPRs) on
patient outcomes for hospitalized adults and user opinion related to SPRs. Background: In …

Over the past several years, there has been a growing recognition that contamination of the
patient environment by all bacterial and viral pathogens frequently associated with …

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Background There is increasing interest in the effects of hospital and ward design on multi-
faceted infection control. Definitive evidence is rare and the state of knowledge about current …