The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, researchers said in Chicago this week. To avoid spreading those ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April) shows that contamination of privacy curtains ...

Eight privacy curtains were contaminated with VRE at more than one time point; three with persistence of a single isolate type and five with different types over time, “which indicates recontamination ...

Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings to be presented Saturday at an infectious diseases ...

Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research. Without timely intervention ...

Recent research published in the American Journal of Infection Control shows privacy curtains may be quickly contaminated with pathogens. For three weeks, the study authors obtained swab cultures from ...

The researchers took samples from areas where people hold curtains, which suggests increasing contamination resulted from direct contact. “We know that privacy curtains pose a high risk for ...

Arlington, Va., September 27, 2018 - Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new ...

The U.S. Air Force is looking to add privacy curtains to its B-52 Stratofortress bombers as more women join flight crews. Earlier this month, the service published a request for information from ...

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