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CDC Issues Alert On Emerging Yeast Infections
Another emerging infection is on the radar.
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Common CMS Infection Control Citations
Even as CMS makes a bold push into regulating antibiotic stewardship programs, the agency is inspecting hospitals and finding common, recurrent problems.
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CMS: Extends IC Across Continuum
There have been frequent communication breakdowns between hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities as patients with multidrug resistant pathogens or some other infectious condition move to various points of care. Thus better “communication across settings” is needed to avoid situations like failure to isolate an infected patient, potentially triggering an outbreak in the receiving facility. -
CMS Regulation Taps IPs for Key Stewardship Role
It's a move to rein in drug-resistant bacteria and stop the rise of Clostridium difficile.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
C. diff. Risk in Veteran’s Long-term Care; Survival in Acute Liver Failure
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Too Much of a Good Thing
In the United States in 2010 and 2011, an estimated 30% of outpatient oral antibiotic prescriptions may have been inappropriate, a finding that supports the need for establishing a goal for outpatient antibiotic stewardship.
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Diagnosis and Management of Acute Infectious Diarrhea in 2016
The American College of Gastroenterology has developed a guideline dealing with the management of immunocompetent adults with acute infectious diarrhea, other than that due to Clostridium difficile infection.
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Diagnosis and Management of Invasive Aspergillosis in 2016
This updated guideline takes into account newer diagnostic methods and therapeutic agents and their use in the treatment of aspergillosis.
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Newly Recognized Rickettsial Infection in Eastern Central China
Fifty-six of 733 patients in China who were evaluated for suspected Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) were shown by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to be infected with Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae (CRT). Fever, myalgia, cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, and hemorrhagic manifestations were common. Rash was rarely seen, and eschar was observed in 16% of cases. Thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, and abnormal LFTs were commonly observed. Co-infection with SFTS virus was seen 66% of patients, and eight patients died.
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Screening for Clostridium difficile Carriers at Hospital Admission Reduces Subsequent C. difficile Infections
Patients admitted to a single hospital were screened for C. difficile carriage and those found to be positive were placed in contact isolation. This led to a significant decrease in hospital-acquired C. difficile infections.