Wearing gowns and gloves in all ICU rooms didn't lower the combined levels of two key drug-resistant threats significantly.
The effectiveness of the influenza vaccine dropped from 52% at 3.5 months after vaccination to 22% more than 4 months after vaccination during the 2011-12 season, according to a study out of Spain today in BMC Infectious Diseases whose power was limited by a small sample size.
Agency says the most urgent threats are drug-resistant C diff, Enterobacteriaceae, and gonorrhea.
Healthcare-related MRSA cases are down, but where a person lives may influence risk.
Five of the most common healthcare-related infections cost the US nearly $10 billion a year.
The CDC today announced $75 million in grants to help states and cities respond to infectious disease threats.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warns of an increased risk of invasive meningitis in men who have sex with men (MSM) after recent reports of cases from three countries, said a news release today on a rapid risk assessment issued Jul 3.
Saudi Arabian officials reported today that their investigation of a healthcare-associated cluster of novel coronavirus (nCoV) cases has uncovered two more illnesses, increasing the cluster to 15, as France reported two suspected cases related to its first nCoV case, reported yesterday.
(CIDRAP News) – The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that hospitals have cut their incidence of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in half since 2005, but the decline in community-associated MRSA infections has been far more modest.
Mar 27, 2013