Showing posts with label HAI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HAI. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Hong Kong: Two Hospital Clusters Of MDR Acinetobacter Infections

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 8856   Because it is such an international city, and boasts one of the most diligent ( and open ) public healt...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Assessment Of Hand Hygiene Strategies In US Healthcare Facilities

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Credit WHO Hand Hygiene Campaign     # 8332   One hundred and sixty-seven years ago, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelwei...
Monday, January 27, 2014

SHEA Infection Control Recommendations On HCW Attire

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MRSA - Photo Credit CDC PHIL # 8227 While exotic infectious diseases like bird flu make for fascinating study, in reality you are...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Study: Exam Gloves, Dispensers & Bacterial Contamination

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  Credit WHO Hand Hygiene Campaign   # 7438   Although individually packaged sterile gloves are recommended for surgery, sutur...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

NEJM: Targeted vs Universal Decolonization For ICU Patients

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  UPDATED :    Maryn Mckenna – who is Flublogia’s resident expert in all things antimicrobial – has just posted a blog post on this im...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Revisiting The Seasonality Of MRSA

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  Credit CDC PHIL   # 6976     Just shy of two years ago, in MRSA: It’s Got Seasonality , we looked at a PLoS One study that f...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Persistent Pathogens

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  Credit CDC PHIL   # 6757     While exotic emerging viruses tend to garner the greatest headlines, old school bacterial n...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Revisiting An Earlier Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

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  Exserohilum rostratum – Credit CDC     # 6646   One of the basic tenets of modern medicine is Primum non nocere, or ` ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Flight Of The Bacterial Intruder

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 6625   HCAIs ( Health care associated Infections ) or HAIs ( Hospital acquired infections ) constitute ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

HPA: Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) Survey

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  # 6340   The UK’s HPA has released a comprehensive survey of antimicrobial use, and HCAI ( Healthcare-Associated Infections ),...