Airborne Transmission - would air filtration reduce a range of infections and why is there reluctance to recognise it? With Matt Butler, Christine Peters and Evonne Curran

Airborne Transmission - would air filtration reduce a range of infections and why is there reluctance to recognise it? With Matt Butler, Christine Peters and Evonne Curran

In this, the first episode of 2022, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Matt Butler, Consultant Geriatrician (Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK), Dr Christine Peters, Consultant Microbiologist (NHS Greater Glasgow, Scotland) and Dr Evonne Curran, now an independent IPC Consultant. We start off by discussing how Matt came to design a study that looks at the effect of air filtration on a range of infections, including respiratory viruses and more 'common' pathogens like Clostridium difficile. We also discuss why it had taken so long for airborne transmission to be accepted as a mode of transmission. Books recommended by Evonne in the podcast are listed below.

Think Again: The power of knowing what you don't know by Adam Grant (https://www.adamgrant.net/book/think-again/) ISBN: 9780753553886

Seeing what others don't by Gary Klein ISBN: 9781857886788

Paper by Andrew Conway-Morris referred to in the podcast:

Andrew Conway Morris, Katherine Sharrocks, Rachel Bousfield, Leanne Kermack, Mailis Maes, Ellen Higginson, Sally Forrest, Joana Pereira-Dias, Claire Cormie, Tim Old, Sophie Brooks, Islam Hamed, Alicia Koenig, Andrew Turner, Paul White, R Andres Floto, Gordon Dougan, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Theodore Gouliouris, Stephen Baker, Vilas Navapurkar, The Removal of Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Other Microbial Bioaerosols by Air Filtration on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surge Units, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ciab933, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab933

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ESCMID Global 2026 – Selected Gems from the Poster Hall (Part 1)

ESCMID Global 2026 – Selected Gems from the Poster Hall (Part 1)

In the first of two special episodes recorded live from the poster hall at ESCMID Global 2026 in Munich, Brett and Martin swap the lecture theatre for the exhibition floor as they explore some of the ...

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Highlights from ESCMID 2026: Key Papers in Infection Control

Highlights from ESCMID 2026: Key Papers in Infection Control

In this episode, Brett and Martin talked to Dr Nico Tom Mutters about the papers he selected in the always popular 'Year in Infection Control' session at ESCMID Global 2026. Nico is Director of the In...

20 Touko 12min

ESCMID Global 2026: What Matters for Practice

ESCMID Global 2026: What Matters for Practice

In this episode, Brett and Martin reflect on the IPC components a major conference. Recorded after our visit to ESCMID Global 2026 held in Munich, Germany in April, this episode brings together key in...

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Why Healthcare Cleaning Is Different: Reflections from Interclean 2026

Why Healthcare Cleaning Is Different: Reflections from Interclean 2026

In this episode, recorded live from Interclean in Amsterdam, Brett and Martin highlight the contibution of Clean Hospitals to healthcare hygiene and reflect on the contrast between healthcare cleaning...

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Automated bloodstream infection surveillance - Measuring what matters?

Automated bloodstream infection surveillance - Measuring what matters?

How well do we really measure bloodstream infections and could it be routinely automated? In this episode, Brett and Martin look at two papers on automated hospital-onset bacteraemia (HOB) surveillanc...

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Surfaces - High touch or high risk?

Surfaces - High touch or high risk?

In this episode, Martin and Brett talk about what is a high risk and what is a high touch surface. Are they the same? The discussion is based on the following paper:   Zheng et al (2025). “High-touch”...

18 Maalis 13min

Do we feel that we are experts? Take two

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Back in July 2022 when the world was opening up again Brett, Phil and Martin were all in Melbourne and met up for a chat. The topic was 'Are we experts', however due to incompetence (Martin) the recor...

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Resourcing of hospital infection prevention and control programs

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In this podcast, Phil and Brett speak with Dr Lyn-Li Lim from VICNISS (Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System)in Australia. Dr Lim and colleagues recently explored the infection...

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