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Breaking the Chain of Infection and Preventing Cross-Contamination

A plethora of studies in the medical literature has demonstrated that nearly everything in the healthcare setting – from surfaces, to healthcare workers’ hands, to medical equipment and everything in between — can serve as a reservoir and a vector for ...More
April 29, 2009
Posted in Articles, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions
Disposable Products Enhance Infection Prevention Efforts

Disposable products can facilitate and enhance infection prevention and control efforts in the healthcare setting and reduce the opportunity for cross-contamination. “Intelligent and informed use of disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical ...More
April 29, 2009
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization, PPE & Standard Precautions
Medical Fabrics: A Reservoir of Pathogenic Bacterium?

Studies tell us that nearly everything in the hospital environment can become a reservoir for pathogenic organisms. Fomites that can carry these pathogens include everything from computer keyboards, pens and phones, to identity badges and lanyards, stethoscopes, PDAs and ...More
December 31, 2008
Posted in Articles
Persistence of Nosocomial Pathogens Requires Proper Environmental Cleaning

The jury is still out in terms of industry agreement on the degree to which the healthcare environment serves as a reservoir for a variety of infectious microorganisms. In its 2003 guidelines addressing environmental infection control in healthcare facilities, the ...More
November 27, 2007
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization, Environmental Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions
New Light-Sensing Ability Discovered in Disease-Causing Bacteria

Bacteria respond to light through the action of a protein structure called a LOV domain. This image shows the three-dimensional structure of a LOV domain from a plant protein. Image courtesy of Sean Crosson, University of Chicago. By Hugh Powell and Tim Stephens The ...More
August 28, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Features of Replication Suggest Viruses Have Common Themes, Vulnerabilities

A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses -- including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C -- have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to ...More
August 14, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Prion Propagates in Foreign Host

Infectious, oddly-folded proteins that are the main suspects in fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" -- remain mostly a mystery to scientists. Very few prions have been fully described. How they infect ...More
July 9, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
How Plague-Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense

Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body’s immune system. In essence, they knock down the front door of resistance and disarm the cell’s alarm system. Now, researchers at the University of ...More
May 29, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Imaging Techniques Reveal that HIV Infects Host Cells Using a Molecular Entry Claw

Contact of HIV-1 with T-cells. Electron tomographic analysis (top) reveals the architecture of the virus-cell contact region which forms an “entry claw” as shown in the schematic (bottom). Scale bar in left panel is 100 nanometers wide. An advanced imaging technique known ...More
May 7, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
“Insulator” Helps Silence Genes in Dormant Herpes Virus

By adulthood, most people have suffered at least one bout of painful cold sores brought on by the Herpes simplex virus 1, also known as HSV-1. After the initial infection, the virus usually remains in the body, hiding out in nearby nerve cells where the victim's immune ...More
May 2, 2007
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

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