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Hand hygiene – a weapon in the war against antimicrobial resistance
16th of May 2014Mike Sullivan, managing director of hand hygiene products supplier GOJO Industries - Europe writes his latest hand hygiene blog for the ECJ website.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been a topic that has exercised the minds of healthcare professionals for a number of years now. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), AMR is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was originally sensitive.