American Journal of Infection Control

Despite current guidelines for tuberculosis (TB) control in healthcare settings, which focused on smear-positive cases, prevention of nosocomial TB transmission continues to be a challenge. Here, we report results of the first hospital-wide

The Japanese Society for Infection Prevention and Control launched the device-associated infection surveillance project in 2008. The objective of this study was to explain summary of result of this surveillance in 15 years, and to evaluate the

Hand hygiene (HH) is recognized as one of the main evaluation points for improvement by ‘WHO Clean Care is safer Care’.1 HH compliance (HHC) monitoring is often done in the daytime due to logistic reasons. HHC decreases during evening and night