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Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Copper Reduces MRSA & VRE In Hospital Rooms

March 23, 2010
Recent clinical tests demonstrate that antimicrobial copper is effective in significantly reducing the bacterial load in intensive care unit (ICU) patient rooms and on many individual objects in those rooms. Results from a U.S. Department of Defense-funded clinical trial assessing the ability of antimicrobial copper to reduce the amount of ...

bioMerieux introduces FDA cleared chromID VRE for detecting Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

March 12, 2010
bioMerieux – a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics – today announced the launch of the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared chromID™ VRE, a simple and cost-effective solution in the struggle against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). chromID VRE is the first to receive an FDA 510(k) ...

bioMerieux Launches Industry-First Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) Screening Tool

March 11, 2010
DURHAM, N.C. , March 11 /- bioMerieux – a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics – today announced the launch of the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared chromID™ VRE, a simple and cost-effective solution in the struggle against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). ...

Researchers Present ‘a Novel, Automated, Efficient Environmental Disinfection Technology That Significantly Reduces C. Difficile, VRE And MRSA

October 13, 2009
In a study presented at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), researchers used a mobile, automated UV device to decontaminate hospital rooms at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Ohio and analyzed its ability to remove troublesome bacteria, including C. difficile spores.

Researchers Present ‘a Novel, Automated, Efficient Environmental Disinfection Technology that Significantly Reduces C. difficile, VRE and MRSA Contamination’

October 12, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 /- In a study presented at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), researchers used a mobile, automated UV device to decontaminate hospital rooms at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Ohio and analyzed its ability to remove troublesome bacteria, including ...