Infection Prevention

Enhanced infection prevention and control efforts during COVID-19 reduced the rates of some hospital infections at a comprehensive cancer center, including Clostridioides difficile and multidrug-resistant infections, according to a study.

Using wet wipes to clean bedridden patients with catheters resulted in fewer catheter-associated UTIs, researchers in Spain reported.

The “unrealistic” pricing of long-acting injectable PrEP hinders its use where HIV control budgets are stretched, according to researchers, who found that event-driven oral PrEP is a more cost-effective option for fixed budgets.

A pediatric health care system totaled more than $250,000 in antibiotic waste over the course of 2 years — most of it on discarded antibiotics, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Findings from a new study suggest that fit tests for N95 masks can safely be done every 3 years instead of every year, researchers reported.

Mpox can spread a variety of ways — including through close face-to-face and skin-to-skin contact — but sexual activity remains the most common route of exposure, new study findings suggest.

Only a handful of commonly used disinfectants — primarily chlorine-based disinfectants — were consistently effective against the four major clades of Candida auris, researchers reported.

Published results showed implementation of a surgical site infection prevention bundle may decrease rates of deep incisional or organ space Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections after total joint arthroplasty.

In the wake of the FDA approval of the first over-the-counter birth control pill, two experts argued that the time has come to make another prevention medication available without a prescription.

Health care workers who pick their nose were around three times more likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 than those who did not, a small study conducted at two hospitals in the Netherlands found.