The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, researchers said in Chicago this week. To avoid spreading those ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Privacy curtains are frequently and rapidly contaminated with ...

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 ...

Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings to be presented Saturday at an infectious diseases ...

During the 3-week longitudinal study, swab cultures (n=180) were obtained twice weekly from an 800 cm 2 area of 43 separate privacy curtains in 30 rooms from three locations: the medical intensive ...