MDROs are organisms that are resistant to typical antibacterial treatments. An MDRO infection is potentially life threatening. MRSA is one type of MDRO. About 3 million people per year in the United ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(8):653-679. Currently, there is a growing population, highly susceptible to infections, that are exposed to wide antibiotic pressure, increasing the antibiotic ...

A regional collaborative involving universal decolonization in long-term care facilities and targeted decolonization among hospital patients in contact precautions is associated with better ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rigorous disinfection efforts and improved sink hygiene may prevent MDRO spread in hospitals. Efforts require a ...

In hospital settings, multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) are a major threat to patient safety. MDRO are microbes, like bacteria, that have become evolutionarily battle-hardened, developing traits ...

Healthy dogs and cats could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic) to their hospitalised owners, and likewise humans could be ...

Seegene said on the 21st it has launched a new product for detecting multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), the "Allplex™ MDRO Assay," in the European market. The product is a molecular diagnostic ...

Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...