The Upgrade project aims to develop a standardised system to prevent infection and implement control measures in long-term healthcare units, allowing regular verification of their effectiveness, including the environment, with microbiological air quality as a model to test the system.

Keywords:  Air Quality, Antimicrobial Resistance, Infection prevention and control

Principal Investigator: Sónia Gonçalves Pereira (sonia.pereira@ulo.pt)

Duration: 36 months (2019 – 2023)

Institutional Partners and Others

• HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
• Portuguese Polytechnics Coordinating Council (CCISP)

Funding: FCT