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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

Burden of C. diff Infections

Clostridium difficile caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a new Centers for ...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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Pediatricians Face Increasing Pressure to Delay Vaccinations

Pediatricians are facing increasing pressure from some parents who want to spread out the recommended vaccine schedule for their children by postponing vaccines, pointing to a need for improved programs that support timely vaccinations, according to a new study by ...More
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ACP Releases New Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers

The American College of Physicians (ACP) today published two evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in Annals of Internal Medicine for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Bedsores commonly occur in people with limited mobility, such as those in hospitals ...More
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Link Identified Between Virus Recognition, Destruction in Bacterial Immune System

An immune system that helps bacteria combat viruses is yielding unlikely results such as the ability to edit genome sequences and potentially correct mutations that cause human disease. University of Georgia researchers Michael and Rebecca Terns were among the first to ...More
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Key to Tuberculosis Resistance

The cascade of events leading to bacterial infection and the immune response is mostly understood. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the immune response to the bacteria that causes tuberculosis have remained a mystery — until now. Researchers at the Johns ...More
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Poll Finds U.S. Public Sees Ill Health as Resulting from a Broad Range of Causes

A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than 6 in 10 people living in the U.S. (62 percent) are concerned about their future health. Nearly 4 in 10 (39 percent) said that they had one or more negative childhood ...More
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Disease-Carrying Fleas Abound on New York City's Rats

In the first study of its kind since the 1920s, rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens. In research appearing March 2 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, lead author Matthew Frye, an urban entomologist with ...More
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Sequencing the Hookworm Provides Researchers with Potential New Drug and Vaccine Targets

In an advance that may potentially lead to new treatments for parasitic hookworms, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Cornell University have sequenced the genome of the hookworm, Ancylostoma ceylanicum. The genome of the nematode that, ...More
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UW Researchers Develop Oral Swab to Diagnose TB

Drawing inspiration from veterinary medicine, researchers at the University of Washington have helped developed a new prospective approach to diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) - easy-to-obtain oral swab samples, greatly improving on standard diagnostics. ...More
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Infection Control Experts Outline Guidance for Animal Visitations in Hospitals

New expert guidance by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) outlines recommendations for developing policies regarding the use of animals in healthcare facilities, including animal-assisted activities, service animals, research animals and personal pet ...More
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Teenager With Stroke Symptoms Actually Had Lyme Disease

A Swiss teenager came to the emergency department with classic sudden symptoms of stroke, only to be diagnosed with Lyme disease. The highly unusual case presentation was published online last week in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis with ...More
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