ISSN: 2640-2653
Authors: Gadi Borkow*
Millions of individuals worldwide acquire a Healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) each year, making HAIs a global problem contributing significantly to mortality, morbidity, and hospitalization costs, especially as many pathogens have developed high resistance to the existent antibiotic arsenal [1]. The association between HAIs and environmental contamination within the healthcare environment is now well established [2,3]. It has become clear that contaminated surfaces contribute to the transmission of different pathogens such as Clostridium difficile, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and norovirus [2,4]. It has also become clear that decontamination of the contaminated surfaces contributes to the reduction of nosocomial infection outbreaks [3]. However, decontamination of contaminated surfaces is not always effective and even the effect of thorough cleaning can be short lived [5,6].
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