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Japan's AMR response from 2013 to 2025 focuses on surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, and research ...

A newborn baby who died in a Glasgow hospital after developing an infection was “stable” the day before she passed away, an ...

Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...

A new study reveals that diabetes significantly accelerates the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus ...

The US is in the throes an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with ...

Patients colonized with AMR pathogens showed high risk for infection with the same pathogen for up to 2 years, indicating a time window for decolonization interventions.

Keeping your family safe on the internet is an unfortunate everyday reality for many parents, especially as almost every device can connect to the internet in some way. But protecting your ...

The creation of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) propelled infection control onto a national public health platform ... cases selected for this study could have been colonised by MRSA ...

1 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...

Infection prevention and control (IPC) is an essential part of safety in hospitals. We recognise that it is even more important during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We monitor a range of IPC ...

Several interventions with variable rates of success have been reported regarding infection control programs to stop outbreaks or reduce MRSA endemicity in the NICU, but some aspects still remain ...