infection-control

Ecolab, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., provides cleaning, sanitizing and infection-control services to customers in the food-service, hospitality, healthcare and other industries.

Ecolab to Acquire Nalco for $5.38 Billion Gina Chon 2011

Some studies I've read show that it kills more than 99% of bacteria and viruses, so I feel confident in it from an infection-control standpoint.

Avital Binshtock: Green Washing -- the Good Kind Avital Binshtock 2011

Unlike hospitals, however, the clinics are not tightly regulated or inspected and may not have formal infection-control programs.

At the Clinic, Care ... and Infection Laura Landro 2011

Some studies I've read show that it kills more than 99% of bacteria and viruses, so I feel confident in it from an infection-control standpoint.

Avital Binshtock: Green Washing -- the Good Kind Avital Binshtock 2011

They had been ten years in the making, and drafts had been circulating and causing disagreements in the infection-control world for at least two years.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

The appearance of ST398 in humans was such a serious finding that in the summer of 2006 the Netherlands Working Party on Infection Prevention, the national infection-control agency, put pig farmers and swine veterinarians on the same high-risk, “immediately isolate” list.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

By the late 1990s, hospitals were routinely practicing the basic infection-control techniques that had been reinforced by the arrival of AIDS in the 1980s, emphasizing the use of gloves to avoid contact with body fluids.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

Some 37 cases have been detected in the U.K. Dr. David Hooper is chief of the infection-control unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, where one of the U.S. patients was treated.

Doctor: Be Vigilant, Don't Panic About Superbug 2010

To make clear that the whole organization needed to be committed to the goal, Novant called in representatives of the whole organization: administrative staff, nurses, and physicians from multiple departments, as well as the infection-control professionals, the department dedicated to clinical improvement, and marketing.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

Since the 1980s, the CDC had issued guidelines about 1,198 specific infection-control practices, and more than 500 of them were “strongly recommended.”

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010