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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

Preventing CRE Infections

Researchers from the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (C-PIE) were able to reduce colonization and infection of ...read more

PPE and Ebola Preparedness

A recent increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) has caused delays for some products ordered by U.S. hospitals for Ebola ...read more

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Report Summary Hospital executives, infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists are by now familiar with a number of givens relating to ...read more

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H3N2 Viruses Remain the Most Common Cause of Flu in the U.S.

According to this week’s FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu activity is widespread in most of the country and key indicators used to measure severity are climbing sharply. H3N2 viruses remain the most common. Flu activity has ...More
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UGA Researchers Develop New Treatment for Rabies

Successfully treating rabies can be a race against the clock. Those who suffer a bite from a rabid animal have a brief window of time to seek medical help before the virus takes root in the central nervous system, at which point the disease is almost invariably fatal. Now, ...More
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Researchers Report Success in Preventing CRE Colonization and Infection

Researchers from the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (C-PIE) were able to reduce colonization and infection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase‐producing Enterobacteriaceae (KPC CRE) at four long‐term acute care hospitals using a ...More
11 hours ago Posted in News
Study Reveals How Listeria Breaches the Placenta

A gut bacterium called Listeria (Listeria monocytogenes), which is often found in soft cheese, is known to present a risk to pregnant women. Listeria uses distinct tactics to breach the intestine and the placenta, using a protein called phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3-K), ...More
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FDA Approves a Second Vaccine to Prevent Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease

The Food and Drug Administration announces it has approved Bexsero, a vaccine to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in individuals 10 through 25 years of age. Bexsero is the second vaccine approved by the FDA in the past ...More
15 hours ago Posted in News
Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Next-Generation Cobas MRSA/SA Test

Roche announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance for the cobas® MRSA/SA Test for the early, simultaneous detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (SA) ...More
16 hours ago Posted in News
Protecting Fans from Ebola at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea

Thanks to preparedness activities by Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health, FIFA and WHO, the 1 million people gathered in Equatorial Guinea for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations are able to focus more on footie than on fears of Ebola. ...More
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SLU Scientist Aims to Improve Antibiotics to Treat Staph Infections

In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University Mee-Ngan F. Yap, PhD, discovered new information about how antibiotics like azithromycin stop staph infections, and ...More
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WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Prevent and Control the Spread of Herpes Simplex Virus

New World Health Organization (WHO)-led global estimates for herpes simplex virus type 2, published by the journal PLOS ONE, show that more than 400 million people worldwide were infected with the virus in 2012. The estimates underline the extent to which herpes simplex ...More
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Expert Panel Develops Tool to Reduce Costly CAUTIs During Hospital Stays

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is spearheading an initiative to reduce catheter–associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) — one of the most common and costly infections contracted by patients in hospitals — through an assessment and ...More
3 days ago Posted in News