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Infection Control Tomorrow

Learn more about Infection Control Tomorrow, the industry's most progressive 2-day in-person event discussing traditional strategies and leading ...read more

Science Summit: Emerging Pathogens

The Science Summits provide an opportunity for manufacturers in the infection prevention and control arena to present and explain the science behind ...read more

The Volatile World of Influenza Viruses

The current global influenza situation is characterized by a number of trends that must be closely monitored. These include: an increase in the ...read more

Clostridium difficile Infections

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a ...read more

Preoperative CHG Bathing

This report addresses patient skin cleansing with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) as an effective intervention in the arsenal against surgical site ...read more

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Hospitals Participating in ACS NSQIP Significantly Improve Surgical Outcomes Over Time

The majority of hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (ACS NSQIP®) improve surgical outcomes over time, and improvement continues with each year that hospitals participate in the program, according to a ...More
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Recent Advances in the UV Disinfection of Healthcare Facilities

The use of ultraviolet disinfection to combat healthcare associated infections has expanded significantly over the past several years. According to manufacturers’ estimates, there are now over 600 portable UV disinfection units in use in the US and internationally. Their ...More
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Health System Describes Success with Aggressive Campaign to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotics

An aggressive campaign to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics has helped cut the rate of infection with a dangerous drug-resistant bacteria at The Valley Hospital by nearly 40 percent. A recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Burden of ...More
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Herb Holds Promise as Treatment for Ebola Virus Disease

New research that focuses on the mechanism by which Ebola virus infects a cell and the discovery of a promising drug therapy candidate published Feb. 27 in the journal Science. Dr. Robert Davey, scientist and Ewing Halsell Scholar in the Department of Immunology and ...More
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Liberia-U.S. Clinical Research Partnership Opens Trial to Test Ebola Treatments

In partnership with the Liberian government, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) today launched a clinical trial to obtain safety and efficacy data on the investigational drug ZMapp as a treatment for Ebola virus disease. The study, which will ...More
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WHO Calls for Scaled-Up Vaccination Against Measles in Europe

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe calls on policy-makers, healthcare workers and parents immediately to step up vaccination against measles across age groups at risk. This will help to put an end to the outbreaks occurring in countries in the ...More
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Malaria Transmission Linked to Mosquitoes' Sexual Biology

Sexual biology may be the key to uncovering why Anopheles mosquitoes are unique in their ability to transmit malaria to humans, according to researchers at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and University of Perugia, Italy. Through analysis of 16 Anopheles genomes, ...More
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Malaria Plays Hide-and-Seek with Immune System by Using Long Noncoding RNA to Switch Genes

Up to 1 million people -- mainly pregnant woman and young children -- are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most devastating form of human malaria. Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed the genetic ...More
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ACIP Reaffirms Recommendation for Annual Influenza Vaccination

Today the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted on its annual influenza vaccine recommendations for 2015-2016. ACIP voted to continue to recommend that all persons 6 months and older be vaccinated annually against influenza. However ACIP did not renew ...More
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Warning Signals from the Volatile World of Influenza Viruses

The current global influenza situation is characterized by a number of trends that must be closely monitored. These include: an increase in the variety of animal influenza viruses co-circulating and exchanging genetic material, giving rise to novel strains; continuing cases ...More
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