The authors performed a narrative review on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-
CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and all infectious agents with the primary endpoints to …

There is increasing interest in the role of cleaning for managing hospital-acquired infections
(HAI). Pathogens such as vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), methicillin-resistant …

The Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, presents
evidencebased recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and …

Evidence that contaminated surfaces contribute to the transmission of hospital pathogens
comes from studies modeling transmission routes, microbiologic studies, observational …

Studies in the 1970s and 1980s suggested that environmental surface contamination played
a negligible role in the endemic transmission of healthcare-associated infections. However …

Executive Summary The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of
Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for …

The World Health Organization's Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care have been
issued by WHO Patient Safety on 5 May 2009 on the occasion of the launch of the Save …

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and certain gram-negative bacilli …

The etiology of nosocomial infections, the frequency of contaminated hands with the different
nosocomial pathogens, and the role of health care workers' hands during outbreaks suggest …

Increasing numbers of hospital-acquired infections have generated much attention over the
last decade. The public has linked the so-called 'superbugs' with their experience of dirty …