In the field of healthcare, maintaining a high standard of infection prevention is paramount. A recent data-set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that 514 acute care hospitals based in the United States have registered a catheter-associated urinary tract infection rate of zero. The Healthcare Associated Infections-Hospital database applying measures produced…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified Candida auris, a potent yeast species, as an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat infiltrating US hospitals. Initially detected in Japan in 2009 and reported in the US in 2016, an alarming resurgence of this drug-resistant fungal infection is presently uncoiling, borne from versatile sources. This escalation…