DISINFACTS | Issue 2/2025

EDITORIAL 3
FORUM 4
Congress repor t: ‘ICPIC 2025‘ 4
Three awards for commitment to sustainability 12
HARTMANN at the Freiburg Congress on Infections 2025 21
The role of pharmacies in patient safety 24
KNOWLEDGE 6
The 5 moments of surface hygiene: Do visualizations improve compliance? 6
New overview of relevant pathogens in healthcare and the associated hygiene measures 13
European standards in the field of disinfectants 14
Improving hand hygiene in Spanish nursing homes PRINCESS programme 17
Odour nuisance in the workplace 18
C. difficile – A persistent challenge in clinical practice 20
Hygiene measures in dialysis 22
PRACTISE 19
Pathogens that require enhanced hygiene measures 19
Hand and surface hygiene in the dental sector 23
Hand hygiene in everyday life 25
Athlete‘s foot – an underestimated fungal infection in everyday life and sport 26
Insights from the latest Eurosurveillance & new WHO resolution 27
Conscious use of medical disposable gloves is possible 28
STUDIES 7
New findings on the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene 7
INTERVIEW 8
Experience with the software module „Observe“ 8
DISINFACTS MAGAZINE AND NEWSLETTER 30
IMPRINT 30

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