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Healthcare Pathogen Series
A growing collection of evidence-based articles exploring clinically significant healthcare pathogens, their environmental persistence, routes of transmission, and the role of UV disinfection within modern infection prevention.


Pathogen Series | No. 02
Explore the healthcare significance of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, its remarkable environmental persistence and biofilm formation, and the role of UV-C disinfection in reducing environmental contamination.

Prof. Valerie Edwards-Jones
Aug 103 min read


Pathogen Series | No. 01
Acinetobacter baumannii, Carbapenem-resistant Environmental Persistence, Healthcare Significance and the Role of UV Disinfection Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative bacillus and an opportunistic pathogen. It has a high infection rate amongst immunocompromised individuals, particularly those who have experienced a prolonged greater than hospital stay. It has been recognized to cause infections such as pneumonia, septicaemia, meningitis, urinary tract and wound infection

Prof. Valerie Edwards-Jones
Aug 22 min read
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