Nosocomial Infections News

I initially became hooked on ID when I was a medical student rounding on ID service and was evaluating a person with pneumonia who had just expectorated purulent sputum.

As a physician trained in India, I saw the devastating impact of infectious diseases like TB, malaria and waterborne illnesses, and the profound difference public health interventions can have. That led to my career in global health.

Infection prevention staff at Boston Children’s Hospital learned that the complexity of certain tasks is an important factor for determining staffing needs, rather than just using the number of beds.

The FDA on Monday cleared Qiagen’s 1-hour PCR test for meningitis and encephalitis, which the company said could help treat meningococcal disease more quickly.

There was a “marked decrease” in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing home personnel last season, according to researchers, who attributed the decline to cost and the end of the CMS’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement in mid-2023.

LOS ANGELES — In a Healio video exclusive, the president-elect of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, or SHEA, gave an overview of the critical issues that health care epidemiologists will face in the coming year.

LOS ANGELES — Another study is suggesting that shorter is better — this time, a 2-week course of antibiotics for bloodstream infections was safely cut in half in a multinational randomized trial.

LOS ANGELES — One-third of patients with a carbapenemase-producing organism died, according to a study conducted at nearly a dozen New York hospitals.

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.