"The last thing that we wanna do is a patient to come into the hospital and leave sicker than what they were," Tennille said. The hospital's environmental services team employs rigorous cleaning ...

The research, published Feb. 12 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, found that the collaboration between antimicrobial stewardship physicians and pharmacists, along with the use of local ...

Flu numbers in the state are rising, and it has already made an impact on communities this winter season.Dr. Amada Novack, an infectious disease and internal me ...

The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

The development of bacterial vaccines has played a critical role in combating infectious diseases, significantly reducing mortality and morbidity worldwide.