Innovation for infection prevention and control-revisiting Pasteur's vision

Louis Pasteur has long been heralded as one of the fathers of microbiology and immunology.Less known is Pasteur's vision on infection prevention and control(IPC)that drove current infection control,public health,and much of modern medicine and surgery.In this Review,we revisited Pasteur's pioneering works to assess progress and challenges in the process and technological innovation of IPC.