The recent Infection Prevention 2014 Conference featured a series of presentations by NHS hospital representatives that demonstrate improving infection control practices and patient management, through the use of a variety of bioburden management solutions – from the decontamination of ward areas, patient isolation, and wound care.
Cleaning techniques and their efficacy against pathogens such as VRE, MERS and SARS are just some of the hot topics infection control professionals have been discussing at the recent Infection Prevention conference. Among the solutions discussed, for example, was hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) technology and best practices.
Bioquell’s senior microbiologist, Jon Otter, presented, along with two of his peers, a study that demonstrates the capacity of some pathogens to survive for days on dry surfaces.
The study focused on a number of important viruses with pandemic potential such as H1N1 and H5N1 influenza, SARS and MERS coronaviruses. Droplets are likely to be the main route of transmission for these respiratory viruses, but direct and indirect transmission via contaminated environmental surfaces may also occur. The study brought together a collection of articles that have evaluated survival of influenza, SARS and MERS and their surrogates on dry surfaces in laboratory studies, or in field settings.
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