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Hair Apparent: Surgeon Rebellion Succeeds on Head Covers
Previous recommendations for surgeons to fully cover their hair and ears to prevent infections have probably been observed more in the breach than the observance.
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Flu Mandates: Consider Accommodations and Avoid a Lawsuit
Legal challenges to vaccination mandates can be avoided if hospitals try to provide some alternative accommodation for those claiming religious exemption. -
Fauci: HIV Can Be Stopped, but Vaccine Remains Elusive
One of the great pandemics in human history has been fought to a near draw, with no vaccine in sight but treatments that dramatically extend life and block transmission to others. -
Consider Probiotics in Patients at High Risk of C. diff Infection
After the most exhaustive analysis to date on the efficacy of probiotics in preventing Clostridium difficile infection, a researcher recommends that high-risk patients consider taking the products.
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HICPAC Taking New Approach to IC Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principle infection control advisory committee is taking steps to clarify its recommendations, be more transparent about its review of research, and, to paraphrase Voltaire, quit making “perfect the enemy of good.” -
IC Leadership Rounds: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Once consigned to silos themselves, infection preventionists are increasingly out on the floors and inviting their administrators to join them in “leadership rounds.” -
Lightning Strikes: Fatal Infections of Rare Origin
Consider two separate tales of transplant and transfusion gone horribly awry by the narrowest of margins. Each represents a conspiracy of unlikely events that enabled deadly pathogens to find a path to frail patients. -
Infectious Disease Alert Updates
House Mice as Vectors; Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables — or You Might Get TB!
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Another Reason to Get the Flu Shot Every Year
In a case-control study, among older adults, repeated vaccination for influenza was twice as effective in preventing severe influenza compared to non-severe influenza in patients who were admitted to the hospital.
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Fosfomycin or Nitrofurantoin for Cystitis?
A single dose of fosfomycin was found to be less effective than five days of thrice-daily dosing of nitrofurantoin in the treatment of symptomatic lower urinary tract infection in women.