Infection Control Today - Outbreak Detection

Novel Method Accurately Predicts Disease Outbreaks

A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. The new method, known as PRedicting Infectious Disease Scalable Model (PRISM), ...More

March 22, 2013

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Researchers Ponder Role of Undetected Carriers as an Outbreak Source

Hospital personnel may be the source of a nosocomial outbreak (NO), but the role of undetected carriers as an outbreak source is yet unknown. Danzmann, et al. (2013) conducted a systematic review to evaluate outbreaks caused by healthcare workers. The Worldwide Outbreak ...More

February 25, 2013

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

Measuring Genomic Response to Infection Leads to Earlier, Accurate Diagnoses

Duke researchers are looking to genomic technologies – not the isolation of bacteria or viruses – to quickly detect and diagnose infectious diseases such as the flu and staph. Two studies appearing online Jan. 9, 2013, both in the journal PLOS ONE, show how a pattern of ...More

January 10, 2013

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Genotyping Helps Identify Source of Clinic Infection Outbreak

Researchers from East Carolina University used a new technique of genotyping to identify the source of a hematology clinic outbreak of Mycobacterium mucogenicum, a Gram-positive, acid-fast bacteria found in tap water. This is the first outbreak of M. mucogenicum in an ...More

October 5, 2012

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Outbreak Highlights Tainted Tattoo Ink as a Source of Infection

If you end up with a rash on a new tattoo, you should probably think twice before brushing it off as an allergic reaction or a normal part of the healing process. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine documents 19 cases in the Rochester, N.Y. area – the ...More

September 6, 2012

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Could Social Media be Used to Detect Disease Outbreaks?

New research has looked at whether social media could be used to track an event or phenomenon, such as flu outbreaks and rainfall rates. The study by academics at the University of Bristol's Intelligent Systems Laboratory is published online in ACM Transactions on ...More

November 1, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Public Health System Must be Prepared for Lethal Disease Outbreak

Infectious disease and disaster preparedness experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine say the premise of the soon-to-be-released Hollywood movie Contagion, in which a lethal airborne virus spreads quickly around the globe, is realistic and should serve as a reminder that the ...More

September 8, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Hospital Bacteria Outbreak Linked to Nasal Spray

Infection control researchers investigating a rare bacterial outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) identified contaminated nasal spray as the root cause of the infections, leading to a national recall of the product. An article in the August issue of Infection ...More

July 21, 2011

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Scabies Outbreak Linked to Nurse's Dirty Compression Glove

A dirty compression glove worn by a healthcare worker is implicated in a scabies outbreak among newborns. In a study appearing in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Barbara G. Ross, of the Department of Infection Prevention and Control at New York-Presbyterian ...More

May 6, 2011

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions

Program Provides Predictive Surveillance Models for Infectious Disease Outbreak Scenarios

Clara J. Witt, of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues, report in BMC Public Health that the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Division of Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System Operations (AFHSC-GEIS) ...More

March 7, 2011

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