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...

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In 106 inpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-positive body sites, MRSA contamination on their surrounding environmental surfaces and the palm of their dominant hand were detected and quantified. The association between MRSA-positive sites (palm of dominant hand, sputum, nasal discharge, pharyngeal mucosa, open pus, closed pus, urine, feces, and others) in patients a...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are responsible for clinical complications with an estimated 6.1% increase in attributable deaths [1,2]. HAIs increased the length of stay in a hospital from 5.9 to 9.6 days based on one study of over 1,250 patients [1]. Concomitantly, estimated healthcare costs double for patients with HAIs [1,3]. As many as 27% of hospital ward patient rooms are contaminate...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are responsible for clinical complications with an estimated 6.1% increase in attributable deaths [1,2]. HAIs increased the length of stay in a hospital from 5.9 to 9.6 days based on one study of over 1,250 patients [1]. Concomitantly, estimated healthcare costs double for patients with HAIs [1,3]. As many as 27% of hospital ward patient rooms are contaminate...

Contaminated environmental surfaces provide an important potential source for transmission of health care-associated pathogens. In recent years, a variety of interventions have been shown to be effective in improving cleaning and disinfection of surfaces. This review examines the evidence that improving environmental disinfection can reduce health care-associated infections.

The objective of this study is to determine whether DNA signature recovery of Bacillus anthracis strains from different environmental substrates correlates with pathogen cell surface hydrophobicity and induction of host cell death. We compared recovery of DNA signatures from a panel of B. anthracis strains collected from two environmental substrates, non-porous surfaces and soil, using real-tim...