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The presence of alcohol hand gel for the entire period of a recently published study was strongly and independently associated with decreased risk of hospital-associated gastrointestinal infections among patients undergoing elective surgical procedures, the lead study author reports.
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Lack of adherence to standard precautions and failure to implement long-standing recommendations against sharing fingerstick devices continue to place long-term care (LTC) residents at risk for acquiring bloodborne infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Staphylococcus aureus has been an uncommon cause of necrotizing fasciitis, but the authors of this report found an alarming number of this type of infections caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA).
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Infected football players are the latest evidence that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is emerging in American communities. A community-acquired strain of the ubiquitous MRSA USA300 clone was responsible for a cluster of skin abscesses among professional football players in the United States, investigators reported.
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In light of the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to allow alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensers in egress corridors, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is stressing the importance of hand hygiene to health care workers and consumers.
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Even as the impasse over fire safety and alcohol handrubs nears resolution, another issue is putting infection control professionals and fire marshals at odds: surgical fires.
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A surprising 8% to 20% of all methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates collected as part of a prospective population-based surveillance were not associated with traditional risk factors and were classified as community-associated MRSA, the authors report.
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