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Isis Lamphier, MPH, CIC, is an infection preventionist at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL.

Articles

What should individuals getting a tattoo look for to protect themselves from infection? This is the first article in a series on tattoo safety.


Is your Professional Tattoo Artist Protecting You Against Infections?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 3, 2023.


Weekly Rounds: Norovirus 2022-2023 Season, Rodent Infestations, and More

technical services manager, Rollins, Orkin, LLC, provides technical support and guidance for Orkin in the areas of training, education, operations, and marketing. As a board-certified entomologist and a 35-plus-year industry veteran, he is an acknowledged leader in pest management.

Rodents are known to transmit more than 35 illnesses. What signs should environmental services personnel and infection preventionists look for?

Rodent Infestations and the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Tori Whitacre Martonicz is the editor of 

.  She has been a writer and editor for over 30 years, and she has an MA and BA in English Composition/Literature from the University of Akron in Akron, OH. She lives in Ohio with her husband; son; 2 tiny dogs, Selena Brigid Sophia and Doctor Danger Dog; and a big black cat, Freya. She loves reading, writing, gardening, and spending time with her loved ones.

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How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus?  Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more. 

Norovirus: Preventing Spread in Food Service and Health Care Facilities

Infection Control Today's® Product Locator is a monthly column highlighting some of the latest advanced technology in the infection prevention field.

ICT's Product Locator: January/February 2023 

Information for health care workers and patients to protect patients from infections. 


Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients at Home

Karen M. Jones, MPH, RN, CIC, FAPIC, has been an acute care infection preventionist since 2009 and has conducted infection prevention research at hospitals and nursing homes. She has 15 years’ experience as an emergency department nurse in Chicago and Detroit, and her interests are translational research and the mentorship of nursing home infection preventionists.

Information for infection preventionists to manage ESBL-producers even while fighting against COVID-19. 

Considerations for Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producers in Nursing Homes

New study shows home infusion therapy staff may have significant barriers to infection-surveillance training, and this could be leading to higher infection rates. 

Home Infusion Therapy: Limited Study Shows Lack of Formal Infection-Surveillance Training 

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 13, 2023.

Weekly Rounds:  Kracken Subvariants of COVID-19, Rare Infectious Diseases, and More

REBECCA LEACH, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC, has been an infection preventionist since 2010, with a background in nursing and epidemiology. Leach, a member of Infection Control Today®’s Editorial Advisory Board, currently works at a healthcare system in Phoenix, Arizona, that includes 5 hospitals and more than 100 outpatient treatment centers.

How do infection preventionists navigate the many—and often contradictory—requirements that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon them?  

Surface Disinfection