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A 1-month prevalence study was done in 2009 at 25 of the 56 contributing hospitals participating in the Chicago Health Alert Network.
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In early October, 12 inmates from the Utah State Correctional Facility became acutely ill with nausea, vomiting, facial paralysis, and visual blurring.
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Hollywood movies have always created their own reality. Meanwhile, the rest of us slog through the conventional reality of our daily lives.
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This study was conducted at the largest children's hospital in Taiwan. All pneumococcal isolates recovered from sterile sites from children hospitalized at this institution were maintained frozen at -20° C since 2000.
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A total of 783 children 6-24 months of age were followed for an entire respiratory season by four experienced otoscopists using pneumatic otoscopy of one ear, randomly selected for each child.
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Outpatients with a diagnosis of either dentoalveolar or periodontal abscess or a diagnosis of gingival inflammatory infiltrates were randomized to receive either moxifloxacin 400 mg daily or clindamycin 300 mg QID, both for 5 days, in a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-dummy clinical trial design.
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Baseline production of PSMa subtypes was examined in 50 PVL-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and MRSA clinical isolates using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS), and these results were compared to a control strain, LAC (USA300). MICs were determined using a broth macrodilution method.
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As the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration moves deliberatively toward an infectious diseases standard, two paradigms could spell very different fates for a proposed rule.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services controversial 2008 policy to cut reimbursement for selected health care associated infections (HAIs) has led to some positive prevention measures while fulfilling some predicted unintended consequences, according to an unpublished national survey of infection preventionists.
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The continuing state and federal mandates requiring hospitals to report healthcare associated infections threatens to outstrip their original justification, raising questions about whether the labor-intensive efforts will result in true reductions of HAIs, warned Patricia Stone, PhD, FAAN, professor of nursing and director of the Center for Health Policy at Columbia University in New York City.