Guinea pig model Diffuse peritonitis Peritoneal lavage Lavasept® Polihexanide Tarivid® Ofloxacin High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Intolerability to Lavasept® peritoneal lavage in experimentally induced peritonitis in the guinea pig Axel Berg1, Ojan Assadian2, Peter Rudolph3, Ralf G. Mundkowski4, Jan Janda5, Axel Kramer3* 1 MVZ / Surgery, Frankfurt (Oder) 2 Clinical Institute for Hy...

The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Environmental Health School of Medicine, University o...

G. ZARFEL *, K. KRZIWANEK , S. JOHLER , M. HOENIGL , E. LEITNER, C. KITTINGER 1, L. MASOUD1, G. FEIERL1 AND A. J. GRISOLD1 1 Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria 2 Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, National Reference Centre for Nosocomial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance, Elisabethinen Hospital, Lin...

Jessica Datta*, Geraldine Macdonald†, Jane Barlow‡, Jacqueline Barnes§ and Diana Elbourne¶ *Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK †School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK ‡Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK §Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck...

aUniversity of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY bNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY cNorth Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC dKansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, KS eUtah Department of Health Violence and Injury Prevention Program, Salt Lake City, UT fMaryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD gM...

1 Health Care Research Unit, University of Southampton, UK 2 Richard Bright Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, UK 3 Department of Renal Medicine, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK 4 Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 5 Public and Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU), London ...

BACKGROUND Health gains that environmental interventions could achieve are main questions when choosing environmental health action to prevent disease. The World Health Organization has recently released profiles of environmental burden of disease for 192 countries. METHODS These country profiles provide an estimate of the health impacts from the three major risk factors 'unsafe water, sanita...

BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is one of the essential means to prevent the spread of infections. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of hand hygiene in primary care settings. METHODS A cross-sectional study using a self-reported questionnaire was conducted in primary care settings located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the service of King Abdu...

Recent efforts to combat infections have focused on pharmaceutical interventions. However, the global spread of antimicrobial resistance calls for the reappraisal of personal and institutional hygiene. Hygiene embodies behavioural and procedural rules that prevent bacterial transmission. Consequently, the chance of spreading bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is...