Background The Hawthorne effect, or behaviour change due to awareness of being observed,
is assumed to inflate hand hygiene compliance rates as measured by direct observation …

Background Influenza vaccination of healthcare workers (HCW) is important for protecting
staff and patients, yet vaccine coverage among HCW remains below recommended targets. …

We assessed the performance, stability, and user acceptability of swab-independent self-collected
saliva and saline mouth rinse/gargle sample types for the molecular detection of …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has perturbed the seasonality of respiratory syncytial
virus (RSV) infections. However, we lack data on how this impacted the severity of paediatric …

Nosocomial pathogens may be acquired by patients via their own unclean hands, but there
has been relatively little emphasis on patient hand hygiene as a tool for preventing …

Importance Trends in COVID-19 severe outcomes have significant implications for the health
care system and are key to informing public health measures. However, data summarizing …

We investigated epidemiologic and molecular characteristics of healthcare-associated (HA)
and community-associated (CA) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) among adult patients …

Carbapenems are considered last-resort antibiotics for the treatment of infections caused by
multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales, but carbapenem resistance due to acquisition of …

Study objective SARS-CoV-2 represents an occupational risk to paramedics, who work in
uncontrolled environments. We sought to identify the occupation-specific risk to paramedics by …

We assessed appropriateness of preceding and concurrent antibiotics in 126 consecutive
patients with hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infection. In 93 (73.8%) episodes, at least …