Infection Control Today - Outbreak Investigation

Genomics Used to Find Source of Haitian Cholera Outbreak

Employing technology that reads the entire DNA code, researchers led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Technical University of Denmark have pinpointed the source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed more than 6,000 people and sickened 300,000. ...More

August 23, 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

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Evaluating Efficacy of Control Measures for Disease Outbreaks

The transmission of infectious disease amongst the human population is a complex process which requires advanced, often individual-based, models to capture the space-time details observed in reality. Yong Yang of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, ...More

July 19, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Genomics and Social Network Analysis Team Up to Solve Disease Outbreaks

Combining the cutting-edge technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria with social networking analysis, public health officials can get a more detailed picture of disease outbreaks that will better help track and stop them, say researchers at the 111th General Meeting ...More

May 20, 2011

Posted in News

Using Geographic Profiling for Targeting Infectious Disease

Geographic profiling is a statistical tool originally developed in criminology to prioritize large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime. Steven C. Le Comber, of Queen Mary University of London, and colleagues, report on their use of two data sets -- one historical and ...More

May 18, 2011

Posted in News

Anatomy of an Outbreak

What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people? Scientists have long known that the process they call "viral emergence" involves a wide variety of factors. Some are changes in the environment, either generated by natural causes or human ...More

May 6, 2011

Posted in News

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

Measles Outbreak Underscores Need for Continued Vigilance in Healthcare Settings

Measles virus. Courtesy of the CDC. The U.S. measles vaccination program has been successful in eliminating endemic measles in the United States; yet this success has provided challenges that require ongoing vigilance for the rapid identification and response to measles ...More

April 29, 2011

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

Serratia Outbreak From TPN in Alabama Hospitals Being Investigated

The Alabama Department of Public Health continues an ongoing investigation of an outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia in six Alabama hospitals in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Alabama Hospital Association, the Drug Enforcement ...More

April 8, 2011

Posted in News

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

Posted in News

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