Parasitic Infections
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Hospitals restrict visitors as H1N1 flu resurges
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CDC: 'The game has changed' on looming antibiotic resistant bugs
Pick your poison: Hypervirulent KPC, untreatable E. coli in the community -
New era of infection prevention in long term
For years scarce data on health care associated infections in long term care has been extrapolated from small studies and published reports, but a new era of infection prevention is opening that may eventually produce the kind of benchmarking and national comparative HAI rates used in hospitals. -
CMS questions during a nursing home survey
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CDC trying to rein in antibiotic use in LTC
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The battler: CRE can't beat an indomitable spirit
Of all the motivations to become an infectious disease doctor, this is one of the more unusual paths taken: lose most of one leg and nearly all of your life to a series of recurrent near pan-resistant bacterial infections that you've finally fought into remission but still have a 30% chance of coming back and trying to kill you. -
Only a 50% adherence rate to infection control in ICUs
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CDC: Test workers for HBV immunity
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Monkey Fever — Kyasanur Forest Disease
Kyasanur Forest disease, also known as monkey fever, is a cause of hemorrhagic fever with late CNS manifestations in a geographically delimited area of India. -
Japanese Encephalitis
Guangdong province in China, having brought SARS under control, is now facing its seasonal epidemic of Japanese encephalitis.