Sinks and toilets: Two sources of hospital outbreaks

An hourlong session during this year’s ESCMID Global raised awareness of hospital sinks and toilets as a source of outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hillary A. Craddock, PhD, MPH, lecturer in the department of public health and epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, summarized the challenges of reducing the spread of bacteria from hospital hand