Just saw this story and thought people might be interested in it. Source: Brain-Invading Tapeworm That Eluded Doctors Spotted by New DNA Test – Scientific American The article discusses a new test to be offered by UCSF as well as some other tests from other places that all involve some type of metagenomic sequencing to …
Just discovered this site from the CDC dedicated to information about Helthcare Associated Infections: Healthcare-associated infections | HAI | CDC. It has a great collection of links and resources including links to data, research, prevention methods, and more. Definitely worth checking out if you have any interest in HAIs or hospital associated microbes.
Sept. 18, 2013. Magill House – I’m in a B&B that was once a cure cottage in the Adirondack town of Saranac Lake, New York, where for more than 70 years tuberculosis patients came from the big city hoping that the cold mountain air would cure their disease. Half the houses had TB patients near …
HICprevent is today’s microBEnet microbiology’s Blog of the Day. Blogs are taken from list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet. This blog is one of the few blogs we have found out there that is heavily focused on microbes specifically in the built environment. The blog is by Gary Evans and is associated with a publication from AHC media “Hospital …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: Curiosidades de la MicrobiologÃa (Curiosities of Microbiology: English translation) Author: Manuel Sánchez Tagline/Summary: Los seres vivos son a las leyes de la …
A paper has been uploaded to the Mendeley group associated with microbe.net, Microbiology of the Built Environment (http://www.mendeley.com/groups/844031/microbiology-of-the-built-environment/). Appropriately, the title of the paper is as accurate as it is concise: “Indoor air purification and decontamination by a new highly-efficient air purification technology with filter sterilization and impact of air exchange rate on bacteria and …
Interesting article on the possible connection between overworked/burned out nurses and hospital acquired infections: Burned-out nurses linked to more infections in patients – Vitals. Not clear whether any type of causal relationship was established here (though I doubt it). But nevertheless, this is yet another factor to consider when thinking about the transmission of microbes in …
Well, this is a disappointing story. In 2006 and 2008 California passed some legislation with the ultimate goal of limiting hospital acquired infections. Unfortunately, enforcement and use of the legislation has faltered, according to an article in the Sacramento Bee by Deborah Schoch: Deadly bacteria lurk inside hospital wards Not much positive to report here though …
The New York Times from yesterday has an editorial discussing hospital acquired infections: Hospitals Shouldn’t Make You Sicker – NYTimes.com. They discuss some new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine as well as some efforts by the Obama Administration. While there is a lot of research on hospital acquired infections, one thing the Times …