Water Management for Legionella Control: A Proactive Approach
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There are numerous...
Has the Antibiotic Course Had Its Day?
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Therapeutic interventions for infectious diseases are complicated by multiple factors, including unknowns surrounding the identity of the infectious agent(s), the bacterial load, and the...
The case for Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Student Call to Action.
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Antibiotic resistance is a modern-day crisis. Medical professionals are quickly running out of antibiotics that we can use to treat deadly bacterial infections and...
Biological Air Quality Considerations for Non-Healthcare, As Built Environments
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Affiliation: GBAC, Global Biorisk Advisory Council
Disclosures: This paper was funded by the Global Biorisk Advisory Council
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The importance of good...
Zika Cases Confirmed in North America: Time to Panic?
Updated: Tuesday February 2, 2016
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Background: Vector-borne diseases are defined primarily by how they are spread. While many insects and arachnids can spread a diverse...
Critical Aspects of Infection Control in the Public Setting
Infection control refers to evidence-based measures and practices that are put in place to prevent the spread of infectious diseases within a community or...
Antibiotic Stewardship: The Role Medical Laboratories Play
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I often refer to antimicrobial resistance as the slow-burning pandemic that continues to spread like a smoldering wildfire – picture a large expanding, ignored...
Antimicrobial Properties of Copper and Copper Alloys for Infection Control
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Over the past decade the development of additional disinfecting methods has become increasingly important to prevent hospital acquired infections as antibiotic drug resistance has...
Food recalls in EU – Week 49/2015
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This article is an extraction of data from the European Commission RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) and reports all the main...
The Need for Rapid Contagion Screening
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Some of the most communicable infectious diseases present with fever when they are most contagious.
Diseases like flu, norovirus, Ebola, measles and tuberculosis all pose...
