Triclosan (TCS) is a multi-purpose antimicrobial agent used as a common ingredient in
everyday household personal care and consumer products. The expanded use of TCS …

With reports of vancomycin-resistant enterococci recently emerging in hospital settings,
renewed focus is turning to the importance of multifaceted infection prevention efforts …

The 2013 Infection Prevention and Control (IP&C) Guideline for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) was
commissioned by the CF Foundation as an update of the 2003 Infection Control Guideline …

Guidelines for preventing infectious complications among hematopoietic cell transplant
recipients: a global perspective | Bone Marrow Transplantation Skip to main content Thank you …

Background Superficial bacterial folliculitis (SBF) is usually caused by S taphylococcus
pseudintermedius and routinely treated with systemic antimicrobial agents. Infection is a …

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium that colonises the skin and is present in
the anterior nares in about 25–30% of healthy people. 1 Dependent on its intrinsic virulence …

Mediastinitis continues to be an important and life-threatening complication after median
sternotomy despite advances in prevention and treatment strategies, with an incidence of …

There is ongoing controversy about the role of health-care workers in transmission of
meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We did a search of the literature from …

Antiseptic agents are increasingly used for hand hygiene and skin decolonization as key
tools for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections. Chlorhexidine, a divalent …

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