Health care personnel in hospitals often made active failures, including violations, mistakes and slips, in personal protective equipment use and infectious agent transmission precaution practices ...

Here are 17 key administrative recommendations for the prevention of bloodborne pathogen transmission, outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1. Incorporate preventing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A group of 239 scientists recently sent an open letter to the World Health Organization, urging the group to acknowledge evidence they say supports a rethinking about how the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just changed its guidance for discontinuing transmission-based precautions and disposition of patients with COVID-19 for both healthcare and ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can spread rapidly within skilled nursing facilities. After identification of a case of Covid-19 in a skilled nursing facility, ...

Detection of replication-competent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the most reliable indicator of contagiousness. 1 Although the duration of live-virus shedding is well ...