Category: Infection Control

Las Vegas-based Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System has stopped testing asymptomatic patients for COVID-19 before surgical procedures, it announced April 10.

From 2019 to 2021, 17 states reported their first case of Candida auris, a yeast fungal infection becoming more resistant to treatment. Three Massachusetts General Hospital experts told Becker’s the three ways to contain the spread.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed two new standards to reduce ethylene oxide emissions and protect workers exposed to the gas during sterilization processes. 

From drug resistance to the growing threat of Candida auris, today’s infection preventionists face a growing to-do list with limited resources. 

In a large hospital in London, removing mask rules for visitors and staff did not result in a “statistically significant change” in the rate of COVID-19 infections, a study published April 6 found, adding more questions to the swirling debate of mask e…

Observing military tank training prompted John Moses, PhD, a professor and researcher at Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory, to develop “shape-shifting” antibiotics in an effort to fight rising instances of drug resistance.

The first human to be infected with a deadly plant fungus has made a full recovery after two years of treatment, The Jerusalem Post reported April 2.

Researchers have identified what may be the first documented human infection of a rare bacteria from an iguana bite, CNN reported April 2. 

As Paxlovid is “blunting SARS[-CoV-]2 disease pathogenesis,” there are multiple transmissible coronavirus variants circulating resistant to the antiviral’s main ingredient, according to a study published March 29 in Science Advances.

Meredith Hulsey, DO, has been named chief medical officer at Odessa, Texas-based Medical Center Hospital, according to Odessa American. Dr. Hulsey, a pathologist, was trained at MCH; she returned Jan. 3 to begin her new role, after five years away.&nbs…