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Link Between Antibiotics and Biofilms

Researchers from USC and the Oak Crest Institute of Science have discovered the link between antibiotics and bacterial biofilm formation leading to ...read more

Anthrax Incident Points to Safety Issues

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report today that reviews the early June incident that involved the ...read more

Tetanus Infection

The CDC offers information on tetanus infection caused by Clostridium tetani. ...read more

Healthcare Reform

Infection prevention's role in quality improvement initiatives is becoming more of an imperative within the overall efforts by healthcare ...read more

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Typhoid Fever Genomes to Help Scientists Seek Better Vaccines

Every year in developing nations, typhoid fever infects more than 16 million people and kills more than half a million. Researchers hoping to reduce this heavy toll have an important new tool: completed genomes for the two bacteria that are the leading causes of typhoid ...More
December 29, 2004 Posted in News
Study by U.S., Hebrew University Scientists Sheds Light on How Bacteria Persist Despite Antibiotics

Persistence pays off – for bacteria as well as people. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rockefeller University in New York have demonstrated the constant presence of antibiotic-tolerant "persistent cells" within bacteria colonies and have shown, through ...More
December 29, 2004 Posted in News
Use of an Antimicrobial Dressing With Chlorhexidine Gluconate is Shown to Prevent Infection and Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Strains of Bacteria Associated With Catheter Use

SOMERVILLE, N.J. -- The use of an antimicrobial dressing that includes chlorhexidine gluconate has been shown to have an antimicrobial effect against a variety of infectious agents often associated with the use of catheters and other percutaneous devices. Study results ...More
December 29, 2004 Posted in News
AORN Offers Grants to Attend 2005 Congress

DENVER -- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Foundation is offering grants for nursing students, staff nurses, and OR managers to attend AORN's 52nd annual Congress in New Orleans. Funding for these grants is made possible by generous donations from ...More
December 29, 2004 Posted in News
WHO Issues Fact Sheet on Flooding and Communicable Disease

In light of the tsunami that struck Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a fact sheet on flooding and its threats of communicable disease. Risk assessment Floods can potentially increase the transmission of the following communicable diseases: Waterborne ...More
December 29, 2004 Posted in News
Triple-Drug Therapy Promising Against African HIV Subtype

Triple-drug antiretroviral regimens that are widely used in the United States and Europe against one HIV-1 subtype appear to be effective in South African patients infected with a different HIV-1 subtype who also have tuberculosis (TB) or Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), according to ...More
December 28, 2004 Posted in News
Relief Officials Fear Diseases From Rotting Corpses Along Asia’s Shoreline

SEATTLE -- As the known death toll from Sunday's tsunamis rises by the hour, health officials face one of their most urgent and emotional tasks: disposing of human and animal remains before deadly diseases such as cholera threaten the living. ...More
December 28, 2004 Posted in News
Key Leaders Convene to Explore Vision for the Infection Control

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- National leaders from the fields of healthcare, academia, the medical industry, government and the nonprofit world recently convened at a futures summit in San Diego, to explore the evolution of infection prevention and control in an ever-changing ...More
December 27, 2004 Posted in News
Virginia Department of Health Warns of Winter Vomiting Disease

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health reports that cases of norovirus, or “winter vomiting disease,” are on the increase in Virginia. The gastrointestinal disease is seasonal, occurring most often during the winter and causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and ...More
December 27, 2004 Posted in News
California Department of Health Services Cites Nursing Home in Death of a Patient

SACRAMENTO – Emerald Gardens Nursing Home in Sacramento County has received a "AA" citation from the state of California, the most severe under state law, State Public Health Officer Dr. Richard Joseph Jackson announced. The facility received the citation and an $80,000 ...More
December 27, 2004 Posted in News