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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 ...

There is growing recognition that the physical environment in hospitals is an important source of bacteria that cause serious healthcare-associated infections. This work demonstrates that the privacy ...

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 ...

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During the 3-week longitudinal study, swab cultures (n=180) were obtained twice weekly from an 800 cm 2 area of 43 separate privacy curtains in 30 rooms from three locations: the medical intensive ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control shows that the majority of freshly laundered privacy curtains hanging in patient rooms over the course of 21 days acquired the deadly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...