Infection Prevention

Infection Prevention

Infection Prevention

Environmental Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2: The Missing Link in Disease Containment?

Environmental Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2: The Missing Link in Disease Containment?

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest in modern history, quickly spreading to every corner of the globe and causing major health and...
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Pan Access: The Need for Open Access

Abstract: Valuable information from all over the world is being overlooked because the information is not being provided to the key players. Access to the...
Call to Action: NSF Legionella 2018 Conference

NSF Legionella 2018 Conference

Abstract We tend to think of the developing world when addressing issues of safe water, but even in the developed world, there is significant risk...
Evaluating a ‘no-touch’ UVC Radiation Device on High Touch Surfaces

Evaluating a ‘no-touch’ UVC Radiation Device on High Touch Surfaces

 Peer Reviewed  Click Here for Print Version Abstract The computers at nurse’s stations, patient rooms and mobile carts are used 24 hours a day. They are...
A Quick Overview of Chemical Disinfection of N95 FFRs

Overview of Chemical Disinfection of N95 FFRs

LIVE DOCUMENT: Last updated April 2, 2020 3:53 PM EDT We will update this document as new information becomes available Introduction Disinfection and re-use of N95 full...
Antimicrobial Resistance: Too Much Study, Not Enough Action, No Time to Lose

Antimicrobial Resistance: Too Much Study, Not Enough Action, No Time to Lose

Abstract We have known about the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for so long that it seems as though we should have solutions in hand...
Antibiotic Resistance

Canada Putting Up No Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

Abstract: A number of recent developments in the last three months have catapulted antimicrobial resistance onto the world stage. Many other countries, such as the...
Nigeria

Nigeria: Hand Hygiene after Pandemics

Abstract: Last year, Nigeria observed how an existential threat from the Ebola pandemic reinforced people’s attitude towards hand hygiene – a strongly held idea and...
Scarlet Fever

Scarlet Fever Outbreak in UK Baffles Scientists

Abstract: Public Health England has reported a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of Scarlet Fever in England and Wales in the past...

A Preliminary Field-Relevant Test to Assess Decontamination of High-Touch Environmental Surfaces: Testing with Staphylococcus...

Download POSTER PDF: QCT-3 Poster CremCo Editor’s note: Editor’s note: The following work represents the preliminary work being performed by the authors. The study was sponsored by Process...