The drugs don\'t work - a Bioquell perspective
HPV technology allows healthcare professionals to rule out the environment as a route of transmission for infection
Following earlier public statements, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, has now published her book entitled: The Drugs Don’t Work. Released on 19 September, it is the next step in raising awareness among the public as to the alarming global trend of increasing antimicrobial resistance. Most worrying is the global emergence of carbapenemase-producers, which effectively neuter our last line of defence against infections.
'The trend highlighted in this new book warrants a greater focus on prevention of transmission rather than treatment and control, and has led to an increase in global demand for our environmental decontamination technology,' commented James Salkeld, Head of Bioquell’s healthcare division. 'It is only by a combination of interventions in public health and acute care that we will contain and manage this threat.'
By totally eliminating pathogens after the discharge of infected patients, hydrogen peroxide vapour-phase (HPV) technology, like that offered by Bioquell, allows healthcare professionals to rule out the environment as a route of transmission. Recently, when the US National Institutes of Health experienced issues with carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella (Sci Transl Med 22 August 2012: Vol. 4 no. 148 pp), they 'bioquelled' the environment as part of their successful campaign to arrest transmission.
