American Journal of Infection Control

To determine the relationship between home disinfectant use and the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among environmental isolates of human pathogens.

Non-host organisms can establish long-term residence within or on the human body, a process known as colonization. This process starts at birth and eventually leads to the development of a relatively stable, complex group of organisms known as normal

In the article ..úCurrent issues in reprocessing of medical and surgical instruments...Ñ John Whelan in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (2023;51(10):1185-88) was incorrectly published in the October issue of the journal

The primary goal of infection prevention programs is to prevent healthcare-associated infections. To achieve this goal, infection prevention interventions typically focus on ensuring that personnel follow appropriate practices to minimize the risk

Each year in the United States there are over 11,000,000 hospital-based ambulatory surgeries and over 10,000,000 inpatient surgical procedures.1 Each of these procedures involves contact by a surgical instrument with a patient's sterile tissue

Biofilms are surface-attached communities of bacteria embedded in an extracellular matrix. This matrix shields the resident cells from desiccation, chemical perturbation, invasion by other bacteria, and confers reduced susceptibility to antibiotics

In 1995, Mary Wilson described the Basic Concepts in Infectious Disease Emergence and concluded that “the current global situation favors disease emergence” (Table 1).1 The public health threats posed by emerging infectious diseases were further

As the world population is ageing,1 the number of people aged 65 and older in the United States are projected to nearly double in size from 49 million in 2016 (15% of population) to 95 million in 2060 (23% of population).2 With the significant aging

Effective and safe continuous surface and air decontamination technologies could be a useful adjunct to routine cleaning and disinfection in health care settings. Continuously active quaternary ammonium disinfectants that provide residual

The purpose of this paper is to update information regarding the best practices and products for preoperative bathing, surgical hand scrubs, surgical site preparation, daily chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing in intensive care units (ICUs) and non