American Journal of Infection Control

Since December 2019, COVID-19 has caused a worldwide pandemic and Singapore has seen escalating cases with community spread. Aggressive contact tracing and identification of suspects has helped to identify local community clusters, surveillance being

In the battle against the spread of COVID-19, contract tracing is widely seen as a crucial requirement (www.preventepidemics.org) to reopen society. Since its first call with a COVID-19 patient (“case”) on March 27, the Contact Tracing program at

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures have been adopted to prevent health care-associated transmission of COVID-19.1 The unprecedented threat of a novel pathogen provided the impetus for hospital

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common and one of the most costly hospital-acquired infections, (HAI) accounting for 20%-80% of HAIs.1-3 Postoperative spinal wound infections have been reported to occur in 1%- 19% of patients depending