Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)

Develop an exposure plan before a communicable disease event and save yourself time and money.

This warning comes after the FDA was made aware of bacterial infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms have occurred following transmission during FMT.

Research documents inadequate sanitation at a skilled nursing facility and a long-term acute care facility where an individual with A baumannii infection was treated.

Infectious disease exposures account for a major loss of time loss for RNs and infection preventionists. Here's the true burden.

Few studies have examined the impact of CRE in low-income and middle-income countries, but now new literature provides much-needed data on antibiotic resistance in these settings.

With a shortage in specialists, the service could help address an issue that costs health care billions of dollars a year.

The authors of a new study say the use of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors are among the list of risk factors for recurring C diff infections.

A new review recommends updated guidelines for diagnosing and managing Candida and C diff coinfection.

Vanessa Stevens, PhD, discusses her research on fluoroquinolone and cephalosporin prescribing and rates of Clostridium difficile infections at VA health care facilities.

Surgical-site infection was not found to be associated with duration of prophylaxis, but adjusted odds of AKI and C diff infection increased with each additional day of antimicrobial exposure.

Here are the most recent recommendations for these tricky fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients.

The aggregated average HAI rates before and after discontinuing contact precautions were 0.14 and 0.15 MRSA HAI/1000 patient days, 0.06 and 0.04 VRE HAI/1000 patient days, and 0.04 and 0.03 MRSA LabID events/100 admissions.

In a South Korean study of contaminated stethoscopes, 23% were confirmed to have at least 1 potential multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogen.

A new study may help to explain how bacteria present at low levels in healthy human mouths can persist for months and cause hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant infections.

A new approach to ventilation could help reduce airborne nosocomial transmission

A shortage of infectious disease physicians should have us all concerned and here's why.

Will biomarker-guided specific therapies the best option for treating sepsis in the future?

Oral ibrexafungerp demonstrates a favorable therapeutic response in patients with difficult-to-treat Candida infections, including those caused by non-albicans Candida species.

What is the key to success that helped a Spanish hospital achieve an 80% reduction in global incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections and sustain it over an 8-year period?

After receiving treatment with ibrexafungerp, a patient with esophageal candidiasis gradually improved and by day 54 he was completely asymptomatic.

Investigators from the University of Sherbrooke found some bacterial strains of C diff are likely associated with mortality in C diff infection, specifically, NAP1/BI/R027.

An 18-year retrospective cohort study of 130 hospitals in the US Veterans Health Administration system revealed a significant reduction in cases of hospital-onset candidemia. But what caused the drop?

A new study has uncovered that only one-third of patients who present to the emergency department with suspected UTI have evidence of infection, yet the majority receive antibiotics.

Contagion® caught up with Christian Lillis, executive director of the Peggy Lillis Foundation, to hear about the organization’s recent efforts, what obstacles it’s facing, and how providers can help.

New York Times coverage of the problematic “superbug” generates quite a response.

Are the threats of CMS financial penalties creating tunnel vision for certain hospital-associated conditions?

Investigators are now exploring whether the “health care-associated” label for pneumonia is actually doing more damage than anticipated.

Findings of 2 recent studies illustrate the often-preventable risks associated with surgery.

A new study of cockroaches collected from an Iranian hospitals sheds light on how these insects can carry and spread resistant microbes.

The study found that that acute care hospitals with a 20% reduction in fluoroquinolone or third and fourth generation cephalosporins had a “corresponding decrease” in hospital-onset C diff.