American Journal of Infection Control

Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection (CDI) is the most common healthcare-associated infection (HAI), labeled an Urgent Threat by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.1 Patients with CDI can be asymptomatic or

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States define carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria as enterobacteria non-susceptible to any carbapenem antibiotics (MIC ≥4 mg/L for doripenem, meropenem or imipenem or ≥2 mg/L for

Participatory research has been found to be beneficial throughout the research life cycle: from improving research recruitment and response to progressing research perspectives, planning, processes and outcomes.1 To facilitate participatory research

Portable medical equipment (PME) such as workstations on wheels (WOWs) and vitals machines (VM) are frequently used between patient rooms during routine care. Pathogens such as Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus

Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most common pathogens in nosocomial and community-acquired infections, which causes up to 10% of nosocomial infections.1 K. pneumoniae exists in the respiratory tract and intestines of healthy people and animals

Contact tracing interviews are fundamentally a memory task: Remembering all of one's close contacts over a period of time, so that they can be informed of their exposure and self-quarantine. Yet, many contact tracing training guides and protocols

The collection of culture specimens is important for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. In particular, blood culture (BC) is an indispensable test for pathogen detection, as early diagnosis of bloodstream infection is important to

An emergent pneumonia outbreak happened in the late December 2019. Researchers have quickly isolated a new virus from the patient and sequenced its genome [1]. The infectious agent of this disease was identified as a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world. Over 200 million people have been infected and over 4 million have died. 1 At the beginning of the pandemic, primary care clinicians across the globe had little knowledge about the

Throughout the current pandemic, a severe respiratory tract infection in humans resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spread by aerosol droplets 1 from infected persons, and fomites on common touch surfaces have both been confirmed indirectly 2