Pick your poison: Hypervirulent KPC, untreatable E. coli in the community
For years scarce data on health care associated infections in long term care has been extrapolated from small studies and published reports, but a new era of infection prevention is opening that may eventually produce the kind of benchmarking and national comparative HAI rates used in hospitals.
Of all the motivations to become an infectious disease doctor, this is one of the more unusual paths taken: lose most of one leg and nearly all of your life to a series of recurrent near pan-resistant bacterial infections that you've finally fought into remission but still have a 30% chance of coming back and trying to kill you.
As many as 10% may be non-responders
Perhaps the best way research enterprises can thank the volunteers who participate in studies is by sending them the study's findings in clear, simple lay terms.
