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Probiotics for environmental cleaning – can’t B. cereus
Vandini et al. (1) evaluate the effect of a microbial cleaner, containing spores of food grade Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus megaterium in two Italian and one Belgium hospital....
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Maple syrup to fight antimicrobial resistance
I always knew it. Pancakes with maple syrup are so good, they must be “healthy”. Canadian researchers took a different look at North American maple tree syrup. They published that the phenolic...
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More of a bad thing: ESBL-E
In a short, but important Dutch study, the added value of selective pre-enrichment for the detection of ESBL-producing enterobacteriacea (ESBL-E) was evaluated. The authors used their yearly...
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EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE – RELATED ACTIVITIES AT ICPIC 2015
Sorry, as part of the ICPIC organizers, I can’t stop myself to post this. At ICPIC 2015, there will be a large number of activities related to Ebola virus disease (EVD). Due to the unique experience...
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CRE – too weak to spread!?
(Photo: thinkprogress.org) In the May issue of ICHE, Weber et al. published their findings of a study looking at the environmental contamination of rooms occupied by patients colonized or infected...
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ICPIC 2015
Sorry, this was the attempt of a mobile upload straight from the meeting. Here a cleaned version, actually including the picture. I promise, I will not continue (for now) to promote ICPIC via this...
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MRSA in Denmark
(from Statens Serum Institut, EPI-News, N023-2015) ‘The number of hospital-acquired cases observed in 2014 increased to 95 from 52 cases in 2013, but still comprise only a limited share of the total...
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Man’s best friend fetching noro
Caffy et al. identified man’s best friend, dogs (sorry for all those cat lovers), as a possible source of human norovirus. The UK-based-researcher showed that different genotypes of human...
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Up-date on M. chimaera
More and more reports and guidance (Ref) appear with regard to Mycobacterial infections associated with heater cooler units used during thoracic surgery. As mentioned in this blog before, the...
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Endoscope Reprocessing Survey
Recent reports of multidrug-resistant infections related to contaminated endoscopes, which have intricate mechanisms and channels that are especially difficult to clean, have raised awareness about...
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Antibiotics and the Netherlands
Antimicrobial resistance, control of antibiotic use and infection control are some of the things the Dutch presumably do well. Some of the Dutch infection control policies, such as “Search &...
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State of the World’s antibiotics
The State of the World’s antibiotcs, 2015, was just released by the Center for Diseases Dynamics, Economics & Policy (http://www.cddep.org). For all those interested in antimicrobial resistance...
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Q-fever and lymphoma linked!
Okay, the following is not strictly infection control, but it has to do with infections and it will have major impact on how people who were unfortunate enough to contract Q-fever will feel about...
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Influenza among afebrile and vaccinated HCWs
Picture: gerardnadal.com Influenza is considered to contribute to the morbidity and mortality of our patients and during the flu season, some estimate that as many as 1 in 5 patients contract...
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The 30-Second-Questionnaire: Antibiotic Myth Buster
Here we are again, the year flew by and it’s time for Antibiotic Awareness Day/Week. This time around, I will spend my time in a call-center, answering questions of concerned citizens/ex-patients in...
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Antibiotic Awareness: background and links
European Survey of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (EuSCAPE) project The EuSCAPE project aimed to improve understanding of the occurrence and spread of CPE. LINK About European Antibiotic...
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Is it true that I have to finish my antibiotic treatment as prescribed?
It is always the same. If I think that I had a reasonable idea and put it on-line, it will only take a day or two, until friends and colleagues let me know, that others had the same idea – just...
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Crapsules part 2
How do you like your crap? Fresh or frozen? Since Jon’s post on crapsules is one of the most favorite on the blog, I assumed that many of you might enjoy a sequel. Clostridium difficile infections...
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Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Legionella
Ana M. Correia and colleagues (N Engl J Med 374;5 February 4, 2016) present a convincing case of person-to-person transmission of Legionnaires’ disease between son and mother. Seen the epidemiology of...
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Adapt to adopt | Didier Pittet | TEDxPlaceDesNations
Just as another way of sharing here the link to Didier’s TEDx PlaceDesNations talk: http://tinyurl.com/AdaptToAdopt or click on the picture.
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