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Seven types of common environmental surfacesrubber, glass, plastic, metal, sanded wood, cloth, and wheat crackerswere studied for recovery of ~200 viable virions of CMV strain AD 169 applied to 2 cm2 replicates on each surface. Virus was applied in 200 µL aliquots of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS).
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A post hoc analysis was performed on patients with ESBL-EC bloodstream infections from 6 published prospective cohorts. Mortality and length of hospital stay in patients treated with BLBLI (amoxicillin-clavulanic acid or piperacillin-tazobactam) vs. carbapenem were compared in 2 cohorts: empirical therapy (ETC) and definitive therapy (DTC). Multivariate analysis was used to minimize confounding.
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Authors from the helsinki university central hospital, a tertiary hospital in Finland, retrospectively reviewed patient records from 2005 to 2009 to define the causes of fever in returned travelers and to evaluate the diagnostic approach. The 462 records were selected through requests for malaria smears in the emergency department.
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A novel solution to the historic problem of hand hygiene (HH) compliance suggests "Big Brother" and all its ominous connotations may be not such an unwelcome presence after all.
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In a stunning setback to a federal move to mandate seasonal flu shots for health care workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said there is insufficient evidence to warrant such policies and openly questioned the longstanding perception that they make patients safer, Hospital Infection Control & Prevention learned.
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Beginning in July 2012, The Joint Commission will require hospitals to improve influenza rates annually and to work toward a national goal of 90% flu vaccination of health care workers.
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During November, 2011, I attended separate meetings dedicated to exploring the incidence of antimicrobial resistance in two areas of the developing world, India and Cambodia. The first, sponsored jointly by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), and the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM), was named the "International Workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance" and was held at the Haffkine Institute in Mumbai, India. Organized by Prof. Lance Peterson (ASM representative), Prof. Abhay Chowdhary (Director of Haffkine Institute), Prof. V. Ravi (President of the IAMM), and Prof. Guiseppe Cornaglia (President of ESCMID), the workshop brought together around 250 participants, principally from India, to discuss various aspects of antimicrobial resistance over a 2.5 day program.
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Fresh ileum tissue specimens from infants with NEC or non-NEC diagnoses were provided by the Pathology departments at the children's hospitals at Vanderbilt and at University of Illinois. Standard methods of nucleic acid extraction were employed.
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When I was a medicine resident 40 years ago just as the first ICUs were being introduced, treatment for life-threatening bacterial infections consisted of antibiotics, control or removal of the primary source, intravenous fluids, and vasopressors.
