Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
28 Australian Societies provide consensus on COVID-19 guidelines
Sourcing up-to-date reliable information on COVID-19 management and treatment can be difficult. There are so many different sources of information, from peer-reviewed journals, mainstream media, social media, peers, media statements and ‘preprints’ – or non-peer reviewed journal articles. What makes this even more complicated is the potential bias associated with some of these sources of…
Read MorePartnership will fund new research into preventing healthcare-associated infections
Our exciting new partnership with the University of Newcastle in Australia will fund new research into preventing and controlling infections. One in 10 patients in an Australian hospital today is likely to get an infection they didn’t have when they went into hospital. This partnership is very exciting and will see the University provide vital…
Read MorePRESS RELEASE – GAMA Healthcare Ltd acquire Australian distributor, AMCLA Pty Ltd
[17th May 2017, WATFORD, UK] Leading infection control specialists, GAMA Healthcare Ltd, acquires the Clinell division of their Australian distributor, AMCLA Pty Ltd., in Victoria. This significant investment demonstrates GAMA’s continued commitment to infection prevention – providing outstanding education, training and clinical support to healthcare professionals across the world. Plans for growth, support and education GAMA…
Read MoreBiofilms, biofilms everywhere!
A study from Australia (click here for article) has found biofilms pretty much everywhere on an Australian ICU. The research team cut out 44 surfaces from the ICU and identified biofilms on 41 (93%) of them. This finding will be surprising for some, since biofilms are traditionally associated with hard surface – liquid interfaces (teeth, ship hulls,…
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