Surface Disinfection

Information for health care workers and patients to protect patients with cancer from infections.

Information for infection preventionists to manage ESBL-producers even while fighting against COVID-19.

New study shows home infusion therapy staff may have significant barriers to infection-surveillance training, and this could be leading to higher infection rates.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 13, 2023.

How do infection preventionists navigate the many—and often contradictory—requirements that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon them?

What do clinicians, infection preventionists, and environmental hygiene personnel do when faced with rare infectious diseases? Matt Pullen, MD, gives ICT® readers a tutorial.

Have the CDC and EPA given enough correct guidance on how to use cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic, or is it “fundamentally flawed”?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 6, 2023.

In this third installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues the one father's story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, infection preventionists, nurses, environmental services personnel, and other health care workers cannot forget about C auris.

A recent study attempted to estimate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to their pets and identify the risk factors, including food and water bowls and human-animal contact.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 30, 2022.

In this second installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 24, 2022.

In this first installment of 3, Infection Control Today® presents a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines, and how it affects the entire family.

The best disinfectant needs to be fast-acting and remain wet for the entire contact time in a single application. What else is required?

Infection Control Today® talks to Shannon Simmons, DHSc, MPH, CIC, about her work with the APIC's Cleaning, Disinfection, Sterilization Conference and her position as an ambulatory infection preventionist.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 9, 2022.

The TAP Strategy developed by the CDC and SAIL from the US Department of Veterans Affairs prove to be key tools for setting health care-associated infection prevention goals on CLABSI and CAUTI.

Infection Control Today's® Product Locator is a monthly column highlighting some of the latest advanced technology in the infection prevention field.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 2, 2022

A summary of the top stories of 2022, and what to look for in the new year.

Any decrease in the devastation of Clostridioides difficile is welcomed, but an investigative team brought the numbers down by 50%. See what control measures they used.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 25, 2022.

Artificial intelligence increases infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities and beyond.

When an infection preventionist, environmental hygienist, or any other health care worker sees the need and value of a technology, product, or program, but purchasing it isn’t in the department or facility’s funds, how do you convince the C-suite to buy it anyway?

Hospitalized children may be scared and uncertain, and therapy animals can help ease their insecurities. But what is done to protect the humans—and the animals—from infectious diseases?

Hebah Ibrahim Al Zamel, MSN, CIC, CPHQ, currently living in Dubai discusses becoming a member of the APIC CDS Education Committee and what infection prevention is like in Dubai.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 11, 2022.

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s (APIC’s) CDS Conference is virtual this year, and the topics are environmental hygiene and sterile processing.