Infection Control Today

Use of Copper Surfaces in High-Risk Environments Enhances Patient Safety, Researchers Say

Seema Rai, MD, of North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, N.Y., and colleagues, investigated the impact of copper surfaces on the bacterial burden found on high-touch surfaces of phlebotomy chairs in an outpatient infectious disease clinic. Quantitative ...More

2 weeks ago

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Luminore CopperTouch Created to Help Address HAIs

Thomas Valente, president and CEO, announces the formation of LuminOre CopperTouch, a new company from the inventor of LuminOre Composite Metals. The new enterprise is positioned to enter the burgeoning healthcare industry through its proprietary products targeting ...More

November 21, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Study Shows Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Copper

Results from a comprehensive multi-site clinical trial demonstrated that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms reduced the amount of bacteria in the rooms by 97 percent and resulted in a 41 percent reduction in the hospital acquired infection ...More

October 20, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens

Study Shows Copper Bed Rails Stay Cleaner Than Plastic for a Longer Duration

Research results demonstrating that hospital bed rails made of copper have fewer contaminants and remain clean longer than plastic bed rails were presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Chicago on Sept. 19, 2011. The ...More

September 19, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Copper Reduces Infection Risk by More Than 40 Percent

Professor Bill Keevil, director of the Environmental Healthcare Unit at the University of Southampton, has presented research into the mechanism by which copper exerts its antimicrobial effect on antibiotic-resistant organisms at the World Health Organization's first ...More

July 4, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens

Study Finds Copper to be Effective Against New E. coli Strains

As the World Health Organization suggests the E. coli outbreak in Germany is a strain never before seen in an outbreak – O104:H4 – laboratory science conducted at the University of Southampton indicates a role for copper in preventing the spread of such infections. ...More

June 3, 2011

Posted in News

MRSA Eliminated by Copper in Live Global Broadcast

The live experiment used state-of-the-art fluorescent microscopy to show copper eradicating an exceptionally high challenge of MRSA bacteria -- one of the notorious antibiotic-resistant superbugs -- within minutes. Image courtesy of Copper Development Agency. A live ...More

April 4, 2011

Posted in News

Dry Copper Kills Bacteria on Contact

Metallic copper surfaces kill microbes on contact, decimating their populations, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They do so literally in minutes, by causing massive membrane damage after about a minute's ...More

February 16, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Copper Fights Bacteria and Now Battles Odors

Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for dealing with offensive odors, one that doesn't simply mask odors like today's room fresheners, but eliminates them at the source. Their research found that a deodorant made from nanoparticles — hundreds of times ...More

October 27, 2010

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Will Copper Keep Us Safe from the Superbugs?

Three papers scheduled for publication in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.In a busy Birmingham (UK) teaching hospital, researchers swapped a conventional ...More

December 1, 2009

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

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