Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Symptoms of Candida auris can be nonspecific, making diagnosis a challenge. It is most common in long-term ...

Whether we were told to wash our hands for 20 seconds or encouraged to sing “Happy Birthday” while we lathered up, we learned from a young age that hand-washing is an integral part of preventing ...

Carol Blanar, RN, CNOR, executive director of the Indiana Federation of Ambulatory Surgical Centers, shares six ways Indiana ASCs can strengthen their infection control programs right now. 1. Appoint ...

How to improve the reliability of fully automated CLABSI surveillance The algorithms used in electronic surveillance systems may need to be adjusted for specific patient populations to better identify ...

Experts explain how to shorten a flu infection. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When flu season is in full swing, many of us will ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

Antibiotics cannot cure COVID. They don’t help a bit. And yet, new data shows that, during the pandemic, COVID patients were given antibiotics – a lot of antibiotics. That’s bad because the overuse of ...

As a sinus infection gets better, people will start noticing an improvement in symptoms. This may include a decrease in congestion, facial pressure, and postnasal drip. Most sinus infections develop ...