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Clinical Experience in Critically Ill Patients with MERS-CoV
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
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Dengue in the U.S.
In a Boston-based survey of travelers, 19% of individuals who were born in, had lived in, or traveled to dengue-endemic countries showed serologic evidence of previous dengue infection. -
Infectious Disease Alert - Full March 2014 Issue in PDF
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Bird Flu On the Move?
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New SSI guidelines: Making perfect the enemy of good?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines for preventing surgical site infections, focusing on some difficult issues in an exhaustive and largely futile attempt to find conclusive data on various practices. As a result, "no recommendation" is a recurrent theme in the document, which was the work of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
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Eli Lilly joins CDC safe injection campaign
A government-private partnership is breathing new life into the One & Only Campaign, as Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its injection safety program.
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Outbreak of rare etiology leads to oncology clinic
If not for several patients being hospitalized with highly unusual bacterial infections, a recently reported outbreak in a West Virginia outpatient oncology clinic may have gone undetected, an investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Hospital Infection Control & Prevention - Full April 2014 Issue in PDF
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Antibiotic stewardship as a weapon against C. diff
The critical importance of antibiotic stewardship has been emphasized to save the dwindling efficacy of antibiotics, stave off a post-antibiotic era, and cut costs due to unnecessary drug use in the first few years of such programs.