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Traditional hospital curtains have the potential to become sources of pathogenic transmission as Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), such as C.difficile spores and MRSA, can remain on the curtain's surface for long periods of time. An antimicrobial privacy curtain made with a blend of quaternary ammonium chlorides, or QAC, plus polyorganosiloxane reduces contamination with multidrug-resistant organisms, or MDROs, and the microbial burden compared with a standard curtain, according to researchers.