In the past few decades, peptide antibacterial products with unique antibacterial
mechanisms have attracted widespread interest. They can effectively reduce the probability …

Antibacterial coatings are rapidly emerging as a primary component of the global mitigation
strategy of bacterial pathogens. Thanks to recent concurrent advances in materials science …

Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs),
endovascular infections, pneumonia, septic arthritis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, foreign …

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

Hand cleansing is the primary action to reduce health-care-associated infection and cross-
transmission of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Patient-to-patient transmission of …

The research and development of new electronic-nose applications in the biomedical field
has accelerated at a phenomenal rate over the past 25 years. Many innovative e-nose …

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 …

In the UK, we continue to debate the importance of hospital cleaning in relation to increasing
numbers of patients acquiring meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). However …

Epidemic meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (EMRSA) emerged in the early 1980s
with EMRSA-15 and-16 being the most prevalent strains within the UK. MRSA transmission …

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains endemic in many UK hospitals.
Specific guidelines for control and prevention are justified because MRSA causes serious …