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A Bad Bug in a Burn Unit
As infection control worst-case scenarios go, it does not get much more challenging than a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in a burn unit.
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NV-HAP: Barriers to Preventing Most Common Hospital Infection
In the pandemic aftermath, with lean resources and nurse staffing in shortfall, there remains this stubborn fact: The most prevalent healthcare-associated infection has no reporting requirements nor well understood incentives to adopt evidence-based prevention practices.
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U.S. Long COVID Strategy Takes Flight
HHS opens Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, NIH begins enrollment for key clinical trials.
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Biden, Congress Transition to New Era of Pandemic Prevention
The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy will take over the duties of the current COVID-19 and Mpox teams in August.
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New MRSA Compendium Revisits Contact Precautions
The bane of infection preventionists for more than half a century, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) shows few signs of ebbing. MRSA bloodstream infections surged during the first year of the pandemic, raising the question of whether this was because of disruptions and lapses in contact precautions.
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High-Mortality Enterovirus E-11 Infections in Europe
Infection preventionists should be aware echovirus 11 continues to cause infections in newborns in Europe after high-mortality cases first were reported in France.
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APIC Calls on Congress to Act on LTC Infections
In a strongly worded letter to Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology said action must be taken to protect frail residents of nursing homes.
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HCV: The Cure Is Here, but Thousands Still Dying
About 2 million people in the United States are living with an infectious disease that has been curable for a decade but remains the leading cause of liver cancer and kills about 15,000 people annually: hepatitis C.
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Anti-Vaxxers, Misinformation Have Science Under Siege
The antivaccine movement and its attendant misinformation campaigns have science on the run at the cost of thousands of lives, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, warned recently at the 2023 conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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APIC 2023: IP Reinvention Includes Diverse Initiatives
Although the prime mission of protecting patients and healthcare personnel remains the goal, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is undertaking an ambitious agenda of initiatives as part of a post-pandemic reassessment and reinvention.