New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April) shows that contamination of privacy curtains ...

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Patient privacy curtains in hospitals became increasingly contaminated with pathogens and most tested positive for MRSA after 21 days of being hung, according to findings published in the American ...

The researchers took samples from areas where people hold curtains, which suggests increasing contamination resulted from direct contact. “We know that privacy curtains pose a high risk for ...

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A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control shows that the majority of freshly laundered privacy curtains hanging in patient rooms over the course of 21 days acquired the deadly ...

Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research. Without timely intervention ...

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