According to a study released on Thursday, hospital sinks have the highest risk of spreading bacteria resistant to drugs. The findings are based on a multispecies outbreak of superbug ...

Despite replacing all sinks in the hospital with thoroughly disinfected new ones the contamination of multidrug-resistant bacteria persisted. About Careers Internship MedBlog Contact us English (US) ...

On investigation, 9 sinks were identified to be contaminated with CPE. Of these, 6 were from hospital rooms with CPE-positive patients, and 3 from a nurse centre, a waste room, and an ice machine.

Both hospital and residential sinks are breeding grounds for pathogens capable of causing illnesses including pneumonia, ...

SEATTLE — A hospital replaced sink drains and traps in an ICU to stop the ongoing acquisition of multiple species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and found — paradoxically, researchers said ...

Laço, J., et al. (2025) Yearlong analysis of bacterial diversity in hospital sink drains: culturomics, antibiotic resistance and implications for infection control. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi ...

Hutt Hospital. Photo / Mark Mitchell. By Kate Green of RNZ. Doctors at Hutt Hospital are being asked to make beds and clean medical equipment, on top of a busy patient workload.. An email sent to ...

New York, April 11 (IANS) The risk of spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria is highest in hospital sinks, said a study on Thursday. The findings are based on a multispecies outbreak of superbug ...