Category: Infection Control

Bacterial infections accounted for nearly 14 percent of deaths globally in 2019, trailing heart disease as the world’s second-leading cause of death, according to a study published Nov. 21 in The Lancet.  

Researchers found more than 10 percent of fungal infections are diagnosed outside regions where the pathogens were known to be endemic, NBC News reported Nov. 21.

Researchers found a novel respiratory syncytial virus variant responsible for prolonged infection in infants.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers found that Enterococcus, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen, works with Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, to change the metabolic environment in the gut so C. diff can thrive, Science Daily reported Nov…

An estimated 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. every year, and that number is on the rise, according to research by the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease.

The incidence of several common healthcare-associated infections reported by U.S. hospitals increased in 2021, new CDC data shows. 

Phoenix Children’s created a new division of infectious diseases and appointed Dr. Wassim Ballan as chief.

Hand-washing and disinfecting surfaces doesn’t do much to curb the spread of respiratory viruses, because airborne transmission plays a much larger role, Jacob Stern wrote in an Oct. 24 piece for The Atlantic. 

The nation’s first confirmed cluster of Candida auris infections among children was detected at Las Vegas-based Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in May, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A Florida hospital nurse was exposed to monkeypox through a needlestick in July, representing the nation’s first confirmed case from a healthcare exposure, the CDC said Oct. 17.