Arno Germond* and Garance F Upham
Volume5-Issue1
Dates: Received: 2023-11-30 | Accepted: 2024-01-05 | Published: 2024-01-09
Pages: 013-015
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 showed how measures against airborne pathogens are critical in clinical environments. Bacteria make no exception. Healthcare-associated or Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) represent one of the major concerns in the Western world, impairing the clinical outcome of up to 15% of all hospitalized patients [1]. Every year in the European community about 3.2 million patients acquire a HAI, and 37,000 die as a direct consequence of HAI, and the presence of Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) bacteria is a growing concern [1,2].
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Germond A, Upham GF. From Healthcare-Associated Bacterial Infection to Building Design. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2024 Jan 09; 5(1): 013-015. doi: 10.37871/jbres1866, Article ID: JBRES1866, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/ jbres1866.pdf
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