New from authors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Point-of-care molecular platforms for respiratory viruses are applicable to congregate living settings, with excellent diagnostic accuracy, rapid turn-around times and expedited outbreak declaration.

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

New Lyndsay O'Hara et al

➡️“All or none” approaches to contact precautions for MRSA fail to recognize that transmission risk varies.

➡️This qualitative study assessed HCW opinions about a risk-tailored approach to CP for MRSA

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

Attention #SHEASpring2024 delegates! We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our esteemed authors and reviewers for their unwavering commitment to both ASHE Journal & Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Thank you contributions, for your dedication, and your hard work.

New from Goodman et al:

➡️ Identifying LTCF-exposed inpatients is important, but challenging, for infection control.

➡️ In a multicenter validation, EHR data fields identified 76% of LTCF-exposed patients compared to manual review

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

.Tara Palmore discussing a recent ICHE paper by Lee et all on the use of WGS surveillance for CPE

See the paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37702063/

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David Weber discussing an Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology paper by Seidelman et al on a cluster of Mycobacterium abscessus

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New from Eli Perencevich, MD MS et al

Research agenda for transmission prevention within the Veterans Health Administration, 2024–2028

1⃣Active Surveillance
2⃣Isolation
3⃣HH 🧼
4⃣Environmental cleaning/disinfection
5⃣Special populations/settings
6⃣Biosurveillance

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

New from David Banach et al

➡️ Authors describe candidemia outcomes in Connecticut during 2019–2020

➡️ High mortality (34.9%) among individuals with candidemia & frequent readmission (56.6%) among those who survived index infection

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

Happy International Infection Preventionist Day! #InternationalIPDay

New from @Prof_Able, John J. Lowe, Ph.D., et al

➡️Authors contacted 13 clinical laboratory equipment (CLE) manufacturers regarding current high consequence pathogens policies/guidance on warranties, decontamination, and CLE re-use

➡️ Limited engagement

📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

🥼🩸🏥Check out our Letter to the Editor, 'Clinical laboratory equipment manufacturers’ lack of guidance for high consequence pathogen response is a critical weakness' Jocelyn Herstein, PhD, MPH John J. Lowe, Ph.D. in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology !
doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…