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In this prospectively identified cohort of patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza requiring hospital admission, treatment of adults with oseltamivir was associated with a clinically significant reduction in mortality within 15 days, the authors found.
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On Labor Day weekend 2006, our 27-year- old son Josh broke his femur and fractured his skull.
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While methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has grabbed recent national media attention and alarmed the public, there is a quiet but troubling trend of emerging resistance in lesser-known gram-negative bacteria, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned.
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Q. Could you elaborate on your statement during your presentation that "in 15 years, all staph would be resistant?"
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The recent widely publicized finding that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus now kills more people annually than HIV/AIDS in the United States could result in a shift in public health priorities and funding as the true impact of MRSA in health care and the community comes to painful light.
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As the 2007-2008 flu season strikes, infection control and employee health professionals are reminded that a new Joint Commission standard requiring accredited organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff now is in effect.
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The sample covered 994 hospitals in 37 states and included a total of 124,570 patients.
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While the news that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) had eclipsed the annual death toll of HIV drew most of the attention, there was another disturbing finding in a recently published study that was largely overlooked: Nearly 14% of the invasive MRSA cases found were acquired in the community.
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Investigators have found that asymptomatic carriers of Clostridium difficile "have the potential to contribute significantly to disease transmission," including causing infections with the highly toxigenic strain that has plagued hospitals with severe outbreaks.
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Infection control professionals at the Cleveland VA Medical Center took several additional prevention measures because they suspected asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriers were fueling an outbreak in their long-term care facility.