Most cases of black toenails aren’t serious, but often require treatment. If you have pain, swelling, or inflammation that’s ...

Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," can have horrifying and even fatal effects on humans. Symptoms, how ...

Wound infections are a major problem for healthcare systems worldwide. Infections cause patients to remain in the hospital longer., which increases healthcare expenses and negatively impacts their ...

Newsweek spoke to the centenarian's grandson who said that the hospital was compared to "hell" back in the 1920s.

The included population encompasses patients of any age and gender undergoing any surgical procedure utilising sutures to close the wound. The intervention studied is the use of triclosan-coated ...

KEYWORDS: Surgical Site Infection, Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis, Guideline Adherence, Antibiotic Stewardship, Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Infection Control, SSI Risk Factors JOURNAL NAME: ...

KEYWORDS: Surgical Site Infection, Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis, Guideline Adherence, Antibiotic Stewardship, Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Infection Control, SSI Risk Factors JOURNAL NAME: ...

A surgical site infection is an infection that occurs after surgery in the part of the body where the surgery took place. This could include redness of the wound and/or a discharge of pus, which, if ...

In addition, the relatively short follow-up makes it impossible to determine if treatment had an impact on recurrence, treatment failure or re-infection, especially in chronic skin conditions.

Introduction Surgical site infection (SSI) is a potential complication of surgical procedure. SSI after implant surgery is a disaster both for patients and surgeons. Although predictive tools for SSI ...

It is uncertain whether antibiotics are beneficial in solid organ transplant recipients for the prevention of surgical site infections. We do not have enough data to estimate with precision some ...