INTRODUCTION Food-borne infections and intoxications remain one of the most important public health issues globally, both in developing and in developed countries. Numbers of reported outbreaks of food-borne diseases and diseased people are constantly growing. For instance, a total of 320,000 of cases of food-borne diseases, caused by only 6 most prevalent bacterial pathogens (non-typhoidal Sal...

BACKGROUND Mobile phones (MPs) have been an essential part of the lives of healthcare professionals and have improved communication, collaboration, and sharing of information. Nonetheless, the widespread use of MPs in hospitals has raised concerns of nosocomial infections, especially in areas requiring the highest hygienic standards such as operating rooms (ORs). This study evaluated the incide...

The transmission of bacteria is more likely to occur from wet skin than from dry skin; therefore, the proper drying of hands after washing should be an integral part of the hand hygiene process in health care. This article systematically reviews the research on the hygienic efficacy of different hand-drying methods. A literature search was conducted in April 2011 using the electronic databases ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have explored the microbial contamination of glove boxes in clinical settings. The objective of this observational study was to investigate whether a new glove packaging system in which single gloves are dispensed vertically, cuff end first, has lower levels of contamination on the gloves and on the surface around the box aperture compared with conventional glove boxes. ...

DNA metabarcoding is increasingly used to analyze the diet of arthropods, including spiders. However, high sensitivity contamination makes it difficult apply organisms obtained from mass-sampling methods such as pitfall traps. An alternative hand-sample spiders, but unclear how effectively this prevents external contamination, especially with new knowledge showing wide spread eDNA in environmen...

Background The Sediment Quality Objectives (SQO) indirect effects assessment determines whether sediments meet California’s narrative SQO for human health: Pollutants shall not be present in sediments at levels that will bioaccumulate in aquatic life to levels that are harmful to human health. This program determines whether sediment contamination at a site results in an unacceptable health ris...

Results: The overall perforation rate was found to be 15% with 11.6% blood contamination in our study. Surgeons had higher perforation rate (11.1%) compared to other operating team members.The index finger and thumb of the nondominant hand had more perforations then the dominant hand. More perforations were observed in bony operations compared to other surgeries.Perforation rate was more in ope...