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Health care workers are more likely to receive post-exposure treatment after a bloodborne pathogen exposure than they were 10 years ago, but management of their regimens still needs improvement, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
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Failure of initial antibiotic therapy is a well-known cause of morbidity and mortality in infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia. However, the damage doesnt stop there. Inappropriate antibiotic empiric therapy can be a surprisingly costly and sometimes deadly consequence even for less serious infections.
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It appears the old adage in pediatric medicine "children are not little adults" holds true for anthrax infection. The limited data available on children with anthrax suggest that their clinical presentation may differ from adults with anthrax.
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A wicked combination of crude surveillance systems, outdated patient risk assessments and increasing demand for infection rate data could ultimately lead to denial of care for high-risk surgical patients, a leading surgeon warns.
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States that pass laws requiring universal active surveillance cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may saddle some small, community hospitals with a practice that is not cost-effective, according to ongoing research in an upstate New York hospital group.
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Infection control professionals throughout the country are being urged to participate in an unprecedented national prevalence survey this month as part of a long-range goal to eradicate the scourge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections.
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Manufacturers are expecting to produce and distribute more than 100 million doses of influenza vaccines in the United States through early January 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Any light shed on resistant staph in the community by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's national prevalence survey will be most welcome.