My friend and colleague Helen Branswell of the Canadian Press reports (via the Toronto Sun) on the cruel and accidental irony behind an outbreak of healthcare-associated infections at Toronto General Hospital between Dec. 2004 and Mar. 2006. Based on a new paper in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, it’s a fascinating and bizarre tale of [...]
The ICAAC-IDSA (48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and 46th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America) meeting ended a week ago, and I’m still thrashing my way through the thousands of abstracts.
Here’s my final, highly unscientific selection of papers that caught my eye:
* Evidence that the community-strain clone USA300 is [...]
In the new Emerging Infectious Diseases, there is a small but very smart study that ought to get wider play. It was done by a PhD candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill named Lisa Casanova, with the help of faculty and the local health department.
Background: In certain highly infectious environments — including in-hospital [...]
Came back from the conference and got slammed with work. (Also, snow, three days in succession. What is it about “Spring” that Minnesota does not understand?) So especial thanks to the 15 readers — you know who you are and Google Analytics does too — who have been diligently checking regardless.
I’m going to do [...]
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