Bacterial infections, especially by antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria, are an increasing problem worldwide. AMR is especially a problem with health care-associated infections due to bacteria in hospital environments being easily transferred from patient to patient and from patient to environment, and thus, solutions to prevent bacterial transmission are needed. Hand washing is an effective...

Hospital floors are frequently contaminated with pathogens, but it is not known whether floors are a potential source of transmission. We demonstrated that a nonpathogenic virus inoculated onto floors in hospital rooms disseminated rapidly to the hands of patients and to high-touch surfaces inside and outside the room. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;1-4.

Frequently used hand-touch surfaces in hospital settings have been implicated as a vehicle of microbial transmission. In this study, we aimed to investigate the overall bacterial population on four frequently used surfaces using a culture-independent Illumina massively parallel sequencing approach of the 16S rRNA genes. Surface samples were collected from four sites, namely elevator buttons (EB...

Background: The hospital environment is largely colonized by pathogenic microorganisms. this contamination varies qualitatively and quantitatively according to the services capacity of microorganisms survive in inert environments, elimination these requires a well formed staff detailed protocols which meet international requirements. microbiological monitoring surfaces key factor prevent nosoco...

Over the past decade, the civil engineering community has ever more realized the importance and perspective of the reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), the selection of a design that satisfies performance constraints with a specified probability. Since then several stochastic simulation algorithms for computing small failure probabilities encountered in reliability analysis of engineer...

Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) are an important public health problem that impacts negatively on hospital costs and patient prognosis. Given the importance of environment in development HAIs, objective was to evaluate bacterial profile surfaces equipment Orthopedic Clinic Hospital Universitário do Vale São Francisco. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study. ...

BACKGROUND Computers are widely used in healthcare for improved and effective care. Previous published reports have shown microorganisms colonising computer keyboards in some clinical areas. OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to measure, compare and characterize the aerobic microorganisms in computer keyboards of hospital and non-hospital settings. METHODOLOGY Samples were collected from ...

I nfection prevention programs for health care facilities include environmental surface cleaning and disinfection as fundamental components. The use of chemical disinfectants is warranted in certain instances because it is neither necessary nor possible to sterilize all contaminated items and surfaces after provision of patient care. The importance of environmental asepsis is evident as reporte...

T he role of medical devices, such as bronchoscopes, in the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has long been recognized, however, the evidence that environmental and medical equipment surfaces play a role in the transmission of HAIs has been weak. Studies have demonstrated that pathogens can be transmitted from surfaces to personnel and patients, and that these pathogens ar...