Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rigorous disinfection efforts and improved sink hygiene may prevent MDRO spread in hospitals. Efforts require a ...

MDROs are organisms that are resistant to typical antibacterial treatments. An MDRO infection is potentially life threatening. MRSA is one type of MDRO. About 3 million people per year in the United ...

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America’s age 65 and older population is expected to nearly double in size in the coming decades, from 49 million in 2016 to 95 million in 2060. With this aging of the population comes the reality of ...

Clostridium difficile infections in the hospital setting have the biggest treatment price tag, researchers say. Infections linked to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) cause a significant cost ...

More than 50% of nursing home residents may be colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms, CDC says. Nursing home residents are at increased risk of developing infection with multidrug-resistant ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(8):653-679. Currently, there is a growing population, highly susceptible to infections, that are exposed to wide antibiotic pressure, increasing the antibiotic ...

Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...

What's worse than getting exposed to a kind of bacteria that modern antibiotics can't kill? Getting exposed to more than one -- because they may work together to cause an infection, new research ...

Healthy dogs and cats could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic) to their hospitalised owners, and likewise humans could be ...