The Master of Science (MS) in Infection Prevention & Control degree trains students to work as professionals in the field of ... to select 12 credits of electives that align with their research ...

The epidemiology community is hoping a federal program to thwart infections among patients and health-care staff will emerge ...

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff spreads more than three times more than previously thought. C. diff can ...

Hospital-acquired infections are infections patients didn't have when they were admitted to hospital. The most common include wound infections after surgery, urinary tract infections and pneumonia.

To make it easier to wash your hands regularly, you should: keep your arms bare below the elbow remove wrist and hand jewellery before starting work have short ... Healthcare-associated infections: ...

After graduation, Leahy began her career as a Disease Intervention Specialist in the STD Control Program at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. In 2021, she joined Jefferson Health as an ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

Control mice, which didn’t receive either the vaccine or the probiotic, came down with a Salmonella infection in their guts. The vaccine and the probiotic alone could both help suppress ...

The research project was led ... learn as well as those that were in the control group and were uninfected. This reinforces ...