Infectious Disease News Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.

Table of Contents

• Collaboration needed for global MDR-TB threat
• ‘No touch’ cleaning technology reduced nosocomial C. difficile rates
• FDA panel recommends strains for 2012-2013 flu vaccine
• HCV therapy plus addiction treatment 
improved outcomes in illicit drug users
• ACIP considers revising Tdap revaccination recommendations
• ACIP considers Japanese encephalitis vaccine in children
• UK reports third case of novel coronavirus infection this month
• Positive effects of avian (H5N1) influenza
• Antibiotic prescriptions for acute bronchitis decreased with decision support strategies
• CDC: New strain attributed to 2012 norovirus outbreaks
• Chlorhexidine washcloths reduced risk for MDR organisms in ICU
• Ebola virus, yellow fever absent in ill Western travelers
• HAART during pregnancy increased adverse birth outcomes
• Hospital listeriosis outbreak linked to diced celery
• HPV increased risk for laryngeal cancer
• Medicaid drug selection committees often mismanage COI policies, researchers say
• More than 600,000 cholera infections recorded in Haiti since 2010 outbreak
• Tattooing independently associated with increased HCV exposure risk
• ACIP adds newest flu vaccines to list of options for providers
• Adult immunization rates remain low
• Ecology, drivers and dynamics of zoonoses Arnon Shimshony, DVM