Pipe down: Fighting drain-based biofilms at the source

We give an overview of wet surface biofilms; where you will find them, why they are a threat in healthcare settings and how you can manage them. There’s a city of microbes living in your drains, and you wouldn’t even know. The cities are biofilms and their residents are multispecies bacteria, which shelter inside protected…

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Healthcare Infection Transmission Systems (HITS) Conference Summary

It’s the second time I’ve had the pleasure to speak at Healthcare Infection Transmission Systems (HITS) conference. The conference launched in 2017 and since then, provides an excellent platform for industry and academia to exchange knowledge, ideas and expertise. As always, there was a lot of excellent presentations and thought- provoking debates. The main areas…

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Highlights from Infection Prevention 2019

We had a lovely time in Liverpool for Infection Prevention 2019 – we hope that you did too, if you got the chance to go. We have collated some of our highlights in this post. All of the abstracts are published in a Journal of Infection Prevention supplement, here. It’s great to see and hear about…

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Highlights from Infection Prevention 2019

We had a lovely time in Liverpool for Infection Prevention 2019 – we hope that you did too, if you got the chance to go. We have collated some of our highlights in this post. All of the abstracts are published in a Journal of Infection Prevention supplement, here. It’s great to see and hear about…

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GAMA demo schedule at IPS

Come and visit stand 79 to see our topical demos. We will be talking about our Clean Between campaign, our new products, services and more. Take a look at our timetable below:

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Sink drains as a risk for CPE

There is increasing evidence that sink drains can be contaminated with CPE and that this environmental contamination can find its way onto patients. A new study from the US found that contamination of sink drains with CPE and with carbapenemases was commonplace, and that proximity to toilets was an important predictor of drain contamination. The study was…

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