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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is deepening its collaboration with the National Quality Forum (NQF) in an effort to create performance measures to that can be used by health care facilities to publicly report infection information data.
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Though a combination of contact and droplet infection control precautions are recommended in the federal influenza pandemic plans, questions remain about the possibility of airborne flu transmission.
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The fog of war is making it difficult to get a clear epidemiologic picture of why so many soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are developing highly resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections.
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Adherence to hand hygiene in long-term care facilities is alarmingly low, investigators reported recently in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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This study ran from November 2000 to May 2002, recruited 611 patients from 58 centers predominantly from Europe, and set out to compare the efficacy and safety of these drugs for treating febrile, neutropenic patients with cancer and either proven or suspected infection due to Gram-positive bacteria in a prospective, blinded randomized controlled trial.
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The California Influenza Strain (A/California/07/2004 [H3N2]), first isolated in our own backyard in Santa Clara County, included in the 2005-2006 trivalent influenza vaccine, has been given the boot!
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Linezolid is an oxazolidinone antibiotic which has proven to be very useful in the treatment of Gram positive bacterial infections, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA).
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When Primary Ebstein-Barr Infection occurs in early childhood, it is usually asymptomatic. Infection later, during adolescence or in adulthood, is associated with a classic syndrome that we term infectious mononucleosis (IM), mono in the vernacular.
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This paper reports on 5 HIV-infected patients receiving TDF-containing antiretroviral (ARV) therapy who developed ARF. One patient had associated Fanconi syndrome/renal tubular acidosis (RTA).
