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The dramatic reduction of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in hospitals in the United Kingdom is putting considerable pressure on American infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists to follow suit with similar success.
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Despite increased infection prevention efforts in many hospitals, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains a persistent threat to patient safety, according to a new survey of infection preventionists by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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What if HIV had been detected in the small human populations where it first appeared, African bushmeat hunters who were likely infected with the novel retrovirus decades before it struck the United States and spread globally in the 1980s? How many of the 25 million people who have died of AIDS would have remained uninfected because the virus had been identified by scientists in the field?
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Despite all the accolades and academic honors, Nathan Wolfe, PhD, is disarmingly down to a very different Earth one teeming with microbes that are ever interacting with animals and man.
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It is an unfortunate sign of the times that recurrent injection safety lapses and hepatitis outbreaks have reached the point where public health officials felt it necessary to create a toolkit to guide notification and follow-up of patients potentially exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
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Infection preventionists must raise a common voice in support of the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine to overcome the misplaced fears and false information that have led to recurrent outbreaks in unvaccinated populations, an IP urged recently in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the 40th annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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While the exorbitant costs of health care associated infections (HAIs) have been repeatedly cited as a prime reason for prevention second only to the higher calling of patient safety an inconvenient truth was recently revealed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Looking at central line related bloodstream infections which kill some 28,000 patients annually they found a disturbing disincentive to prevent CLABSIs at the very heart of the health care system profit.
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The index case of hepatitis C virus (HCV) that triggered a massive testing effort of patients in a Tulsa, OK dental practice rife with infection control failings appears to be the first documented case of HCV infection via cross-transmission between patients in a dental office, Hospital Infection Control & Prevention has learned.
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An Oklahoma Board of Dentistry report1 on the findings and resulting allegations against the dental practice of Wayne Scott Harrington, DMD in Tulsa, included these key points summarized.
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The state investigative report in a Tulsa dental practice where the first case of hepatitis C virus transmission between patients occurred found some extraordinary lapses in the sterilization protocols for used instruments.
