June 3rd: International Children’s Day: Teaching young people about hygiene and the fight against food borne infections and AMR using e-Bug
Through hygiene education, we can raise awareness, enhance knowledge, and modify behavioural intentions about infection prevention and antibiotic use in our future generation. In a blog to mark International Children’s Day, the e-bug team say “Educating children and young people about hygiene and
May 22nd: Thinking bigger: How early-life microbe exposures influence development of asthma and allergic disease
Imbalance, or dysbiosis, of the gut microbiome of infants has been linked to increased risk of asthma and allergic diseases.
May 6th: Relationship of Sanitizers, Disinfectants, and Cleaning Agents with Antimicrobial Resistance
This new article reviews available evidence from individual studies purporting to demonstrate a possible risk of antimicrobial resistance development, following biocide usage.
April 25th: The hygiene hypothesis - a misnomer which is undermining public health
In a presentation given at the Microbiology Society conference, Sally Bloomfield set out what needs to be done to achieve hygiene behaviour change whilst
March 21st: Four steps to clean hospitals: LOOK, PLAN, CLEAN and DRY
In a new review Stephanie Dancer and Axel Kramer say “Now that cleaning and decontamination are recognized as integral to infection control, it is timely to examine the process in more detail”.
