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Antimicrobial Scrubs & Bacterial Burden

The use of antimicrobial-impregnated scrubs combined with good hand hygiene is effective in ...read more

Fighting Catheter-Associated Infections

Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, backed by funding ...read more

Street Drug is Source of Infections

A study led by Russell R. Russo, MD, a third-year orthopaedic surgery resident at LSU Health ...read more

Waterborne Pathogen Linked to Fountain

A 2010 outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Wisconsin has been linked to a decorative fountain in a ...read more

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Study Offers New Information for the Fight Against Influenza

Ralph Tripp is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Development in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. The influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral drugs used to treat it. ...More
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Research on Vitamins Could Lead to the Design of Novel Drugs to Combat Malaria

New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. The research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria-causing ...More
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Radio-Frequency Identification Battles HAIs, Boosts Hand Hygiene

According to data in a U.S. public health report from 2007, healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) affect more than 2 million people in the U.S. annually and cause 100,000 deaths, while significantly raising hospitalization time and costs. Studies have shown a low level of ...More
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Scientists Reveal How Cholera Bacterium Gains a Foothold in the Gut

A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target treatments for the globally significant intestinal disease which kills more than 100,000 people ...More
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Researchers Show How New Viruses Evolve and Sometimes Become Deadly

Justin Meyer, an MSU graduate student, led a team of researchers, including Devin Dobias, former MSU undergraduate student, that showed how new viruses evolve. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. In the current issue of Science, researchers at Michigan State University demonstrate how a ...More
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Patti Koncur Named IAHCSMM Educational Specialist

The International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management has hired Patti Koncur, CRCST, CHMMC, ACE, a central sterile supply veteran and long-standing active IAHCSMM member, to serve as the association’s educational specialist. Under the direction of ...More
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CHICA to Hold Annual Meeting June 16-21, 2012

The Community and Hospital Infection Control Association - Canada (CHICA) will hold its National Education Conference on Infection Prevention and Control June 16-21, 2012, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The theme of this year's event is “Growing for the Future.” The event ...More
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Prevalence of Oral HPV Infection Higher Among Men Than Women

The overall prevalence of oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is approximately 7 percent among men and women ages 14 to 69 years in the United States, while the prevalence among men is higher than among women, according to a study appearing in JAMA. The study is being ...More
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Antiretroviral Drugs Guard Against HIV but May Lead to Birth Defects

HIV-positive mothers have been able to guard against transmitting the disease to their babies by taking antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. Although the drugs prevent children from being born with HIV, they could cause birth defects, such as cleft lip and palate. A new ...More
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Researchers Examine UV Powder, Gel for Assessing Environmental Cleaning

Silvia Munoz-Price, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami, and colleagues, report in the February issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on their comparison of cleaning rates associated with use of ...More
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