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    Biodefence research two decades on: worth the investment? - 3 year(s) ago

    For the past 20 years, the notion of bioterror has been a source of considerable fear and panic worldwide. In response to the terror attacks of 2001 in the USA, extensive research funding was awarded to investigate bioterror-related pathogens. The global scientific legacy of this funding has extended into the present day, highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Unsurprisingly, the surge in…

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      In response to the 2001 terror attacks in the USA, research funding was awarded to investigate bioterror-related pathogens. A Review in @TheLancetInfDis explores the question, "Biodefence research two decades on: worth the investment?" 🔗 https://t.co/t7xp6C2zp7 #LancetInfDis20 https://t.co/SbsMdWAVXY

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    Hand hygiene in health care: 20 years of ongoing advances and perspectives - 3 year(s) ago

    Health-care-associated infections are the most prevalent adverse events of hospital care, posing a substantial threat to patient safety and burden on society. Hand hygiene with alcohol-based hand rub is the most effective preventive strategy to reduce health-care-associated infections. Over the past two decades, various interventions have been introduced and studied to improve hand hygiene…

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      Hand hygiene saves lives 👐🧴 In its preview issue (2001), @TheLancetInfDis published a Review of the history of #HandHygiene. 20 years on, @DidierPittet & colleagues return to this lifesaving topic in infection control. Read: https://t.co/yflhxwJ7C4 #LancetInfDis20 https://t.co/GQkCZgsprC

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    An eventful 20 years - 3 year(s) ago

    This issue marks 20 years of publication of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In the issue, we publish two Reviews that reflect themes from the journal’s first year of publication. The first paper published (in the April, 2001, preview issue) was a Review of the history of hand hygiene by Didier Pittet and John M Boyce. In this issue, Pittet and colleagues (with Nasim Lotfinejad as first author)…

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      In our Editorial, we look back at some of the first content we published, as well as our most cited articles, #COVID19 research, and enduring challenges in #InfectiousDiseases. Read: https://t.co/O7Bts5Qgtu #IDTwitter #LancetInfDis20 https://t.co/08i3ZaBZZD