Dear Readers,
The micro blog has been going well this year, with weekly updates. These are the featured posts:
- More single rooms = less acquisition. A simple equation? (Published on 20th March 2013)
- Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in US hospitals (Published on 13th March 2013)
- No need to worry about environmental contamination with Enterobacteriaceae…or is there?(Published on 5th March 2013)
- What does it take to prevent the transmission of C. difficile from environmental surfaces?(Published on 25th February 2013)
- MDR-Acinetobacter baumannii beats MRSA in the war for ICU predominance (Published on 14th February 2013)
- Keep your hands to yourself (Published on 6th February 20130029
- Improved terminal disinfection using hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) or bleach to control C. diff (Published on 30th January 2013)
- Where the wild things are (Published on 22nd January 2013)
- Hydrogen peroxide at war with catalase (Published on 17th January 2013)
- Mitigating the increased risk from the prior room occupant through HPV room disinfection(Published on 2nd January 2013)
- And finally…healthcare professionals have often claimed to be able to smell the difference between C. difficile and other gastro-intestinal pathogens. This BMJ study shows that dogs can do the same!
It would be good to see some more discussion on the blog, so if you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy! (There was a problem with blocking some email addresses, but that has now been fixed.)
We’ll continue to update the blog with the latest articles weekly. Look out for twitter updates here, and quarterly emails summarizing the top 5 blogs from the last few months.
If you’d like an email every time the blog is updated, just let us know.
Regards
Jon & Saber.
Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control 