A washing machine used to clean newborn clothing harbored a multidrug-resistant bacteria and spread it to multiple patients, a new case study from Germany suggests. Published Friday in the ...

In what might be a first, doctors in Germany think that a too-gentle washing machine helped spread a superbug to more than a dozen newborns and children in the same hospital—though thankfully, no one ...

The bacterium involved was a single clone of Klebsiella oxytoca. The study showed how the organisms were transmitted repeatedly to new babies in a ward located in a children’s hospital. The ...

Washing healthcare uniforms at home might seem safe. But new research shows this common practice could actually be helping dangerous bacteria spread. These bacteria are not only hard to kill but also ...

The UK Health Security Agency says the number of people dying because of severe antibiotic resistant infections rose by 4% between 2021 and 2022 Anti-microbial resistant superbugs have killed an ...

Bacteria may want you to save energy when doing your laundry but not for the right reasons. A new publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showed how cool bacteria may be with washing ...

What's a patient to do? The following is advice to live by if you are a patient, soon to be one or a family member of a patient. The recommendations come from a collaboration of infection-control ...

Anti-microbial resistant superbugs have killed an estimated one million people worldwide every year since 1990, according to research. But Slough's Wexham Park Hospital has worked out that your ...