Weekly Rounds: Immunological Debt, Sequencing-Based Diagnostics, and More

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 11, 2022.

Here are 5 highlights from Infection Control®'s (ICT®’s) wide-ranging coverage of the infection prevention and control world. Everything from interviews with known opinion leaders, to the news that infection preventionists and other health care professionals can use on their jobs.

Respiratory Spread and the Flawed Concept of Immunological Debt: A New Understanding

CDC discusses potential proposals to redefine spread and to produce uniform guidelines across different types of facilities because public health interventions do not cause immunological debt but instead may prevent immunocompromising infections.

Read more about immunological debt

Sequencing-Based Diagnostics Critical to Fighting Against Infectious Disease

While sequencing-based diagnostics have been used since the 1970s, only recently has the technology been used for infectious diseases.

watch this video to learn more about diagnostics

Sexually Transmitted Infections Increasingly Plague the United States

What can the individual do, especially those who are underserved, to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, and complicated with monkeypox.

read more sexually transmitted disease

APIC’s Virtual Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization Conference Promises Learning and Fun

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s (APIC’s) CDS Conference is virtual this year, and the topics are environmental hygiene and sterile processing.

read more about the APIC conference

Developing Vaccines to Fight Sepsis Caused by ExPEC and S aureus 

Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) are 2 of the leading causes of severe sepsis, and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson is developing vaccines to fight those diseases.

read more about the fight against expect and s aureus

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