A novel cleaning bundle improved cleaning thoroughness and reduced vancomycin-resistant enterococci, or VRE, infections by 37% in almost a dozen hospitals in Australia, according to results from ...

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a frequent cause of bacteremia in immunocompromised patients and there exists only two antibiotics that are effective for treating VRE infection. In ...

Nosocomial infection is an infection you get in the hospital. Learn more about what causes it, symptoms of nosocomial infection, and more.

Doctors are treating Pope Francis for a “polymicrobial infection” of his respiratory tract in what they are describing as a a “complex clinical situation” that will require the pontiff to ...