Healthcare Hygiene magazine

Antibodies for respiratory virus that can cause a rare polio-like disease that causes paralysis in children have been identified by a team of researchers at Purdue University, Vanderbilt University Medical…

In a Perspective for the New England Journal of Medicine, members of the National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Vaccines Working Group assess practical considerations…

Coronaviruses can maintain their infectivity in fomites and thus can remain infectious on dry surfaces for hours; however, limited data are available for SARS-CoV-2. Specifically, there are no data about…

Since 2011, the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) has used active surveillance to prospectively collect epidemiological and virological data on patients hospitalized with influenza virus infection.  Lina, et al….

Healthcare Hygiene magazine presents a special edition on imperatives pertaining to infection prevention and control, including a look at HAI prevention progress; a ‘One Health’ approach to IP&C; plus a…

The June issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine explores the mandate for improved infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities in the era of COVID-19. We also look at how…

Even before COVID-19 cancelled the annual meetings of APIC, AORN, IAHCSMM and other professional organizations, infection preventionists and allied healthcare professionals were challenged by tiny or non-existent budgets for travel….

Hospitalized patients who report an allergy to penicillin are often prescribed alternative antibiotics for infection that can be harmful, even though diagnostic testing or evaluations would show that the vast…

By Kelly M. Pyrek Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the March 2020 issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine. Twenty years ago, the federal Needlestick Safety & Prevention Act (NSPA)…

This colorized negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicts the ultrastructural details of a number of Influenza virus particles, or “virions”. A member of the taxonomic family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza…

Image courtesy of ATS The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Respiratory Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have published an official clinical guideline…