Patients are also in poorer health than usual, making it easier for infections to prosper and spread like wildfire ... They analyzed sink drains from a single university hospital on the island ...

"Here we show that hospital sink drains host bacterial populations that change over time, despite impeccable cleaning protocols in the particular hospital we looked at," said Dr. Margarita Gomila ...

Margarita Gomila from the University of the Balearic Islands found that hospital sink drains may be a hidden ... as it can cause deadly infections like pneumonia and sepsis. The researchers ...

"Here we show that hospital sink drains host bacterial populations that change over time, despite impeccable cleaning protocols in the particular hospital we looked at," said Dr. Margarita Gomila ...

Researchers from Spain sampled sink drains from different wards in a single modern university hospital where state-of-the-art cleaning protocols are adhered to. Through culturing and DNA barcoding, ...

A former neurological surgery resident with the University of Illinois College of Medicine pleaded guilty to illegally ...

A third said, "Straddling a toilet backwards to wash my face would make me cry every day." A fourth added, "The only time I have seen a toilet sink combo like that was when I was in jail." ...

When such resistance genes lie on mobile genetic elements, they can even jump between bacterial species, potentially leading to novel diseases. "Here we show that hospital sink drains host bacterial ...