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Admissions to a public tb hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa for treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB from 2003 to 2008 were examined for healthcare workers (HCWs) compared with non-HCWs.
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Only limited data are available regarding the epidemiology of infectious diseases that occur among traveling health-care workers (HCWs) or medical researchers.
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A randomized study was conducted from january 2005 to December 2007 in Amsterdam, among 50 immunocompetent children 14-114 months of age (median age, 35 months) with culture- or PCR-confirmed non-tuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis.
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In this study, 783 HIV-infected Indian mother-infant pairs participated in a randomized clinical trial comparing NVP given for 6 weeks vs. single-dose NVP to prevent MTCT of HIV among breast-fed infants.
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A catastrophic case of failed kidney transplants in two patients due to a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli infection in the donor underscores the critical role of communication and documentation between health care facilities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes.
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Already shown to reduce central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), a checklist protocol program has now shown to reduce mortality in ICU patients age 65 and over, researchers report.
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The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) $34 million initiative to prevent health care associated infections (HAIs) includes the following hospital-based projects.
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Infection preventionists who want to keep their programs in compliance should be well aware that when emergency responders transport an incoming patient who is later found to have a potentially life-threatening disease, they need to receive prompt notification from the hospital about the exposure risk.
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As patients have moved, infections have moved with them. Accordingly, there is a surge of interest and research funding to implement and improve infection prevention beyond the hospital.
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Saying preventing health care associated infections (HAIs) is a national priority, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is putting considerable money where its mouth is: $34 million.