Showing posts with label nosocomial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nosocomial. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Dallas Ebola Press Conference & Hospital Statement

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  # 9181   A clearly subdued Dallas County Judge ( highest ranking county official in the state of Texas ) Clay Jenkins , in a pres...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Spain: MOH Statement On Ebola Infected Nurse & News Roundup

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  # 9155   In a follow up to yesterday’s report (see Nurse `Infected With Ebola’ In Madrid, Spain ) we are seeing more details emer...
Friday, January 03, 2014

WHO: UAE Reports New MERS-CoV Case (HCW)

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  Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL     # 8125     The World Health Organization has just posted a GAR update  (h/t @MackayIM ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Media Reports Blame Saudi nCoV Outbreak On Dialysis Equipment

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  # 7245   Via a pair of long, but reasonably decipherable, Arabic news items overnight (h /t Tetano on FluTrackers ) we get report...
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 ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

MMWR: NDM-1 Transmission In Rhode Island

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  Inoculated MacConkey agar culture plate cultivated colonial growth of Gram-negative, small rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Study: Hospital Uniforms And Bacteria

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    Photo Credit CDC PHIL     # 5798     HAIs, or Hospital Acquired Infections , take an incredible toll on patient’s healt...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Netherlands: Large Nosocomial KPC Outbreak

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    K. pneumoniae on a MacConkey agar plate. # 5717   For nearly two months a hospital in Rotterdam in the Netherlands has been ...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Lab Coat Legislation

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  # 5544     In recent years lab coats, long sleeves, neckties, and jewelry in the healthcare setting have all come under incr...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Long And The Short Of It

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    # 5304     Admittedly, I can’t help but think about MRSA ( and other pathogenic nasties ) every time a nurse slips a well w...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

EID Journal: Nosocomial Transmission Of 2009 H1N1

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      # 5301     From an expedited report in the CDC’s   EID Journal we get further evidence that a hospital is really no plac...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Study: Aerosolized Transmission Of Influenza

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    # 5084     Remarkably, even as we approach the end of the first year of the second decade of the 21st century, there remains a...