The global infection control market will be worth roughly $14 billion by 2017, according to a report from MarketsandMarkets, a global market research and consulting company.
The report includes studies on the sterilization services market, which includes healthcare solutions, hospital sterilization services and applied sterilization technologies.
According to the report, the global infection control market will grow to $14 billion by 2017 from $10.5 billion in 2012 at a rate of approximately 6 percent a year.
The growth in medical sterilization and disinfection is driven by the rise of cleaning standards and mounting pressure on hospitals and clinics to improve sterilization of disinfected medical devices. Improving sterilization in medical packaging of products such as saline bottles, needles and syringes also had an impact, according to the report.