Nosocomial Infections News

Around 9% of health care workers at two New York hospitals said they were unwilling to provide care to patients with COVID-19 early in the pandemic — a much lower percentage than during epidemics of HIV and Ebola, researchers reported.

Despite most facilities performing surveillance for health care-associated invasive mold infections, case definitions and environmental sampling approaches vary substantially and could lead to missed cases, researchers said.

Between two first-line agents for uncomplicated UTIs, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was associated with a higher risk for several adverse drug events compared with nitrofurantoin, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dozens more societies and organizations representing medical personnel have endorsed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health workers, according to a joint statement issued Monday.

High-tech toilets at a Japanese hospital may be harboring and spreading multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a study.

A new report provides the first evidence that pan-resistant strains of Candida auris may have been transmitted in U.S. hospitals, researchers said.

On my first day of medical school, I was assigned a physical diagnosis tutor who was a well-known infectious diseases specialist. He had encyclopedic knowledge. He was a remarkable teacher and — equally important — a great storyteller.

Exposure to commonly prescribed nonantimicrobial drugs was associated with an increased risk for drug-resistant infections in a study of more than 1,800 patients at an Israeli hospital, researchers reported at the ECCMID virtual meeting.

Two hospitals in California explained how they used preventive measures to successfully stop the spread of Candida auris.

A pandemic-themed escape room increased staff adherence to infection prevention and control measures in a Texas health care system, researchers reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology meeting.