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Articles Tagged With: infection

  • The Silent Epidemic: Hepatitis C Virus

    Hepatitis C accounts for a significant burden of disease. There are many barriers to the eradication of hepatitis C virus (HCV), from infection identification to treatment, making it a very complex public health concern. Unfortunately, no vaccine for HCV exists yet, and development proves difficult because of the overwhelming genetic diversity. HCV can be treated by a patient’s primary care physician; this group is instrumental in screening for and treating hepatitis C.

  • The Paramedic’s Tale: From Agony to Activist

    In March 2020, Karyn Bishof, BS, had the physical strength and mental wherewithal to be a paramedic at a fire department. Through the close encounters and hands-on care required for the job, Bishof was infected with SARS-CoV-2. Shortly thereafter began the chronic syndromes and the array of neurological and physical conditions collectively called long COVID. Despite her limitations, Bishof founded the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project and began getting information out to others.

  • Vaccination Can Prevent or Lessen Long COVID

    Could long COVID — a horrific condition anyone would want to avoid — shake people out of the malaise of vaccine apathy, if not outright distrust? Evidence is accumulating that receiving the COVID-19 vaccination before being initially infected with SARS-CoV-2 can significantly reduce the risk of long COVID in children and adults.

  • Why It Is Worth Making Sure All Your Pregnant Patients Receive the Influenza Vaccine

    Infants younger than 6 months of age are at risk for severe influenza infections. Vaccination during pregnancy reduces infection and hospitalization risk by nearly 70%.

  • Defense Verdict Upheld Against Claims of Failure to Diagnose

    This case can provide clinicians with an example and peace of mind knowing that appropriately abiding by the duties within their designated scope of practice is a method for defending against claims of malpractice.

  • Shigella: The New Superbug?

    Five percent of Shigella isolates in the United States in 2022 were extensively drug-resistant.

  • Hepatitis E and Neuropathy

    In this prospective case-control study of patents with neuralgic amyotrophy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and Bell’s palsy, an association with acute hepatitis E infection was demonstrated only with neuralgic amyotrophy.

  • CAUTIs: What to Do, What Not to Do

    New compendium recommendations by the nation’s leading infection control groups on catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) emphasize that, in most cases, screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria does more harm than good.

  • NV-HAP: Barriers to Preventing Most Common Hospital Infection

    In the pandemic aftermath, with lean resources and nurse staffing in shortfall, there remains this stubborn fact: The most prevalent healthcare-associated infection has no reporting requirements nor well understood incentives to adopt evidence-based prevention practices.

  • High-Mortality Enterovirus E-11 Infections in Europe

    Infection preventionists should be aware echovirus 11 continues to cause infections in newborns in Europe after high-mortality cases first were reported in France.