Research published in Anesthesia & Analgesia identified the most common sources of intraoperative bacterial transmission. The study focused on tracing stopcock contamination, which occurs frequently ...
Hospital leaders and health officials are still searching for the cause of a bacterial outbreak that has killed nine patients at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center. Hospital leaders are ...
Researchers use a unique barcoding system to track K. pneumoniae bacteria as it moved throughout the body. Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body's immune defenses.