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 ...

Implementation of multiple prevention interventions could potentially reduce multidrug-resistant organism infections in acute care hospitals, according to new findings published in the American ...

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 ...

"Prescribing high-risk antibiotics to nursing home patients may be linked with higher likelihood of being colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) or having MDRO-contaminated rooms," ...

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 ...

The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) across global healthcare networks poses a serious threat to hospitalized individuals. Strategies to limit the emergence and spread of ...

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 ...

More than one-third of healthcare workers were contaminated with multi-drug resistant organisms, or MDRO, after caring for patients colonized or infected with the bacteria, according to a study in ...

In the single-center PREMIX clinical trial, most renal transplant recipients were negative for multidrug-resistant pathogens shortly after receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), with longer ...