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With strong evidence emerging that infection control interventions and pristine catheter care could prevent thousands of bloodstream infections annually in hemodialysis settings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging freestanding and hospital-based dialysis centers to adopt its core collaborative measures nationally.
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Whether through high-tech innovation or sheer elbow grease, reducing the bioburden of a host of pathogens in the health care environment is taking on unprecedented importance in infection prevention.
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The use of a dedicated cleaning team to literally wipe out Clostridium difficile in occupied patient rooms lowered infection rates and left 93% of high touch surfaces negative on C. diff cultures, says Curtis Donskey, MD, staff physician at Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an author of the study.
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Camels may play an important role as an intermediate or bridge host for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus.
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While a number of mild cases are likely going unrecognized the bottom of the iceberg if you will the serious MERS infections that are being detected are striking people with underlying medical conditions and killing more than half of them.
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The rapid transmission and high attack rate of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in a hospital dialysis unit in Al-Hufuf, Saudi Arabia raises substantial concerns about the risk of health careassociated transmission of this virus, a team of researchers recently reported.
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With the approaching flu season complicated by possible introductions of an emerging coronavirus in the Middle East and a novel H7N9 flu strain in China, clinicians in U.S. hospitals may need to rely more on gumshoe epidemiology than available diagnostics.
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In a 5% random Medicare sample to examine the uptake and efficacy of the herpes zoster vaccine in the general population, including immunocompromised individuals — the adjusted vaccine efficacy for protection against herpes zoster was 0.48 (95% CI, 0.39 to 0.56).
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In the last issue of Infectious Disease Alert, we summarized a recent report demonstrating the increasing risk of coccidioidomycosis, especially in California and Arizona. The comment ended by pointing out the large number of cases of this fungal infection that occurred during construction of Interstate 5...
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High levels of circulating leptin contribute to the development of severe lung injury by Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in mice with diet-induced obesity.
