Results B. cereus complex constituted 164 cases (71.3%). Bacteraemia comprised 207 patient episodes (90.0%), of which 124 occurred in immunocompromised patients or those with intravascular devices. Physicians treated the organism in 68 episodes (29.5%). Environmental investigations confirmed heavy air contamination particularly within patient rooms and air conditioned wards. Dense airborne cont...

•Dry Hydrogen Peroxide reduces environmental contamination in air and on surfaces.•No-touch disinfection technology is an effective adjunct to manual cleaning.•Dry shown be no-touch technology.•Hospital achieves continuous with Dry Peroxide. BackgroundStandard cleaning practices are often inadequate. Persistent the environment poses infection risk that may mitigated by systems. This study evalu...

Campylobacter is responsible for human bacterial enteritis and poultry meat is recognised as a primary source of infection. In slaughterhouses, cleaning and disinfection procedures are performed daily, and it has been suggested that disinfectant molecules might select for antibiotic resistant strains if shared targets or combined resistance mechanisms were involved. The aim of the study was to ...

OBJECTIVE Compare the efficacy of the cleaning technique usually employed in our healthcare facility to eliminate environmental contamination with cyclophosphamide with that of the Surface Safe commercial kit. METHODS This is a three-step evaluative and comparative study involving: (i) the voluntary contamination of the surface of a hood with a pre-established quantity of cyclophosphamide (20...

INTRODUCTION Hand hygiene is an important component of infection control efforts. Our primary and secondary goals were to determine the reported rates of hand washing and stethoscope cleaning in emergency medical services (EMS) workers, respectively. METHODS We designed a survey about hand hygiene practices. The survey was distributed to various national EMS organizations through e-mail. Desc...

Virtually all products that are finished require some pre-finishing procedure such as cleaning, stripping, or pickling. Without a properly cleaned surface, even the most expensive coating will fail to adhere or protect the workpiece. Depending on the process being performed, the degree of cleanliness will vary. Finishing operations such as phosphating, chromating, or electropolishing do not req...

BACKGROUND Contaminated environmental surfaces may play an important role in transmission of some healthcare-associated pathogens. In this study, we assessed the adequacy of cleaning practices in rooms of patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonization or infection and examined whether an intervention would result in improv...

Surface cleaning processes are needed in different life cycle phases of technical products. They are important elements in manufacturing and in maintenance during usage as well as in recycling and remanufacturing. To meet the increasing requirements in product durability and functionality, the usage of compound materials and functional coatings becomes over more important. In this regard surfac...