Infection Control News

A hospital in California offered patients who tested positive for HIV in the emergency department an initial 14-day supply of ART, believing it would minimize treatment barriers and encourage them to seek outside care.

The introduction of eight WHO-recommended vaccines into national immunization schedules slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in MMWR.

ORLANDO — A hospital reduced the rate of hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile infection with a standardized system for early recognition and testing, researchers found.

Moderna has initiated the rolling submission process for its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine candidate mRNA-1345, the company announced Wednesday.

A Pittsburgh hospital curbed neurosurgical infections by more than 80% over 2 years through a multidisciplinary intervention that assessed adherence to surgical site infection prevention recommendations, data show.

ORLANDO — Staff at a hospital that saw more than 100 cases of mpox in its emergency department collaborated to design an infection control protocol to simplify the response, safely care for patients and prevent further transmission.

ORLANDO — Business intelligence software helped improve hand hygiene compliance by making data available and easily accessible in real time, researchers shared at the APIC 2023 meeting.

ORLANDO — An automated hand hygiene monitoring system improved hand hygiene compliance at a New Jersey hospital, according to results presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference.

The risk for bacteremia was low — just over 1% — among children and young adults with sickle cell disease who presented at the emergency department with a fever, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Network Open.

Illnesses linked to foodborne pathogens have returned to pre-COVID-19 levels after declining during the first 2 years of the pandemic, according to a study.