
	DECEMBER 17, 2019


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	A Conversation With Kevin Kavanagh, MD: Infection Preventionists Are Underutilized and Underappreciated

Kavanagh: “Many hospitals do not even have a full-time preventionist. Many rural hospitals have only a part-time individual with limited resources.”

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C. Diff Often Enters Hospitals with Patients

A new study on Clostridioides difficile suggests that this often-deadly hospital-acquired infection isn’t always acquired in hospitals.

Newly Approved Test Can Diagnose MRSA in 5 Hours

It uses bacteriophage technology based on bioluminescence to detect the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) within 5 hours, as opposed to the 24 to 48 hours it takes conventional cultures to do the same.

Tap Water Contaminates Patients’ Lab Specimens With Mycobacterium porcinum

A hospital’s infection control team, with the help of Wisconsin health officials, traced the source of contaminated patient lab specimens back to tap water in 2 ice machines and 1 water dispenser inside hospital intensive care units (ICU).


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