OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients bathed daily with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) have a lower incidence of primary bloodstream infections (BSIs) compared with patients bathed with soap and water. METHODS The study design was a 52-week, 2-arm, crossover (ie, concurrent control group) clinical trial with intention-to-treat analysis. The study setting was the 22-bed medical intensive care...

INTRODUCTION More than 33,000 healthcare-associated infections occur in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) each year in the USA. Parents, rather than healthcare workers, may be a reservoir from which neonates acquire Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) colonisation in the NICU. This study looks to measure the effect of treating parents with short course intranasal mupirocin and topical chlorhe...

This paper describes a method for the determination of the colour of inhomogeneous stains on textile using flatbed scanning (FBS) and image analysis (IA). The method can be used to assess the cleaning performance of laundry detergent products. Stains on textile were visualised using a standard flatbed scanner. A fully automatic procedure was developed using image analysis (IA) software. Differe...

A PROBLEM THAT IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED OR SIMPLY NOT GIVEN ENOUGH ATTENTION: the food served to patients from the kitchen is not sterile. If food is allowed to stand at room temperature for a long time, both in the case of food cooked for lunch and of food intended for supper which has been previously chilled, there is the possibility of massive spore germination or of dangerous toxin formation. Th...

Asbestos is named from the Greek asbeston, meaning inextinguishable or unquenchable, and describes not a single mineral, but a number of silicates distinguished by their fibrous structure, flexibility, strength and high resistance to heat and chemicals. These properties ensured the minerals’ use from the earliest times. Archaeologists have identified asbestos as a strengthener in earthenware fr...

The baobab, Adansonia digitata L. plays an important role in the economy of local populations. oil from seeds baobab fruit is nowadays highly prized because its numerous cosmetic and therapeutic applications composition unsaturated fatty acids, sterols tocopherols. However, unlike refined oils, locally extracted has not undergone purification operations to ensure quality. Only a filtration on s...