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A retrospective study was conducted on members of one family following the deaths of a 15 year old boy and his 13 year old sister. Airway, CSF and serum samples were collected from the two fatal cases. Serum was collected from the three remaining ill siblings and both parents.
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The treatment of MRSA pneumonia is often regarded as problematic, with unacceptably high morbidity and mortality rates among affected patients. Two recent prospective, randomized, double-blind trials found that linezolid was non-inferior to vancomycin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia.
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Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia is a commonly encountered infection in hospitalized patients that can have serious complications if not adequately treated.
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National data available for 2011 indicate that a total of 10,521 new TB cases were reported last year in the United States (incidence 3.4 cases/100,000 population), representing an overall decline of 3.8% from 2010. TB continues to disproportionately affect foreign born persons, and Asians became the single largest racial/ethnic group affected by TB, with a case rate 25 times higher than non-Hispanic whites.
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Based on an analysis of data from the National Program of Cancer Registries and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results programs, CDC determined that there was an average annual occurrence of 33,369 cancers at sites frequently associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection during 2004-2008.
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CEP first reported 10 cases of a newly recognized cause of encephalitis in 2009.
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Meet Christie Chapman, BSN, RN, CPAN. A California hospital infection preventionist for scarcely more than a year, she is plenty smart enough to recognize the truth when she reads it. As in the quote above from a blog by an IP with more than three decades of experience.
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In the age of safer needles, vaccination and prophylaxis, the risk of hepatitis B among health care workers has dropped dramatically, from a high of about 12,000 cases a year in the 1980s to 203 reported acute cases from 2005 to 2010.
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The successful use of checklists to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) has been highly publicized, in part because of the sheer novelty of using a simple solution to solve a highly complex problem.