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Micro news Micro News is put together by BIOQUELL's Lead Microbiologist - Jon Otter. The news includes articles identified by a PUBMED search using the terms ‘MRSA’, ‘VRE’, ‘Acinetobacter’ and ‘Clostridium difficile’ and through monthly review of the Journal of Hospital infection, the British Journal of Infection Control, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and the American Journal of Infection Control. Articles are included in the review if they are focussed on environmental microbiology in the healthcare setting. Micro News Summer 2009 Contents: - Environmental reservoirs of MRSA and VRE: seawater, sludge and swines!
- C. difficile: national US prevalence
- C. difficile: virulence and supershedding
- MRSA and C. difficile in long-term care facilities
- Bacterial contamination: stethoscopes and pugs!
- Is it really clean? Monitoring hospital cleaning
- Is routine hydrogen peroxide vapour decontamination feasible?
- Tasty spores?
- MRSA contamination in hospitals
- What are you taking home from work?
- And finally…Acinetobacter the survivor!
Click here for the full article, or to download as a pdf please Click here... Micro News Spring 2009 Contents: - MRSA everywhere: toilets, stethoscopes, uniforms, air, pagers, ambulances and elephants!
- What’s lurking on the keyboard?
- VRE: at the seaside, improved cleaning and diarrhoea
- A problem to get your teeth into
- New drugs: lantibiotics and flower power
- MRSA, the media and the public: an uneasy relationship
- Modelling CA-MRSA as a cause of hospital infection
- Where is USA300 CA-MRSA in the UK?
- A PVL vaccine?
- A one-size-fits-all diagnostic and typing method?
- And finally…Outbreak? Google it!…
Click here for the full article, or to download as a pdf please Click here... Micro News Review 2008 Contents: - VRE environmental contamination: be careful what you touch!
- Prior room occupants and the risk of VRE acquisition
- CA-MRSA and CDI continue to increase nationally in the USA
- Routine HPV decontamination reduces rates of CDI in a US hospital
- C. difficile skin contamination?
- Community-associated C. difficile – an emerging problem?
- MRSA carriage in various populations
- CA-MRSA rears its ugly head in London
- Norovirus outbreak traced to a contaminated keyboard
- And finally…
Click here for the full article, or to download as a pdf please Click here... Micro news - October / November 2008 Contents: - Clostridium difficile 027 is now predominant in the UK
- A new C. difficile epidemic strain?
- Deaths from Norovirus, MRSA and C. difficile in the UK
- MRSA carriage by children, farmers, soldiers, emergency department healthcare workers and criminals
- How clean is clean?
- MRSA contamination of ointments and keyboards
- PVL is not a virulence determinant in mice
- And finally…are you scared of needles…?
Click here for the full article, or to download as a pdf please Click here... Micro news - August / September 2008 Contents: - Update of C. difficile 027 in Europe
- Community-associated C. difficile – an emerging problem?
- HPV decontamination in an outbreak of MRSA in the UK
- MRSA surface contamination at home?
- Acinetobacter transmission dynamics on an ICU
- CA-MRSA SSTIs increase nationally in the USA
- Improved cleaning can reduce contamination
- And finally…The dangers of bedside Bibles!
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Micro news - June / July 2008 Contents: - Routine HPV decontamination reduces rates of CDI in a US hospital
- Rising rates of nosocomial CDI in the US
- CA-MRSA rears its ugly head in London
- Hygiene standards and risk assessment
- Prior room occupants and the risk of VRE acquisition
- And finally…Docs really are worse at washing their hands!
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Micro news - April / May 2008 Contents: - Rapid admission screening and MRSA acquisition rates
- The Pandora’s box of staff MRSA colonisation: too scary to open?
- Wash, rinse and dry!
- Contaminated beds
- Outbreak of Burkholderia from contaminated chlorhexidine
- Environmental and HCW hand contamination during an outbreak of Acinetobacter
- In vitro efficacy of hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) against dimorphic fungi
- And finally…Computer says “wash your hands”.
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Micro news - March 2008 Contents: - VRE environmental contamination: be careful what you touch!
- MRSA contamination of curtains
- Survival of C. difficile spores on metals
- C. difficile skin contamination?
- Costs of CDAD
- And finally…alcoholic Acinetobacter…
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Micro news - February 2008 Contents: - Are your disposable gloves contaminated?
- Are you watching what you eat?
- Opening Pandora’s box of S. aureus carriage in healthcare workers
- C. difficile: it’s airborne!
- MRSA environmental contamination on a London neonatal unit
- Norovirus outbreak traced to a contaminated keyboard
- And finally…a sneaky drink from the garden hose…
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Micro news - annual review 2007 Contents: - Virulence determinants in CA-MRSA
- USA300 CA-MRSA reaches Europe
- CA-MRSA surface contamination in a community setting
- MRSA environmental contamination is important!
- Microbial environmental contamination in hospitals
- Bleach cleaning reduces the incidence of CDAD
- Screening for asymptomatic C. difficile colonization: the way forward?
- HPV effective for the deactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Recontamination following HPV
- And finally…
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Micro news - November 2007 Contents: - Assessing MRSA recontamination following HPV decontamination
- MRSA, diarrhoea and environmental contamination
- Environmental contamination in surgical settings
- More healthcare-associated infections caused by CA-MRSA
- Does asymptomatic colonization with C. difficile matter?
- Making a business case for infection control
- And finally…the writing’s on the patient?
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Micro news - October 2007 Contents: - CA-MRSA carriage in healthy individuals
- Beware the vaccination nurse! A CA-MRSA outbreak following vaccination
- Spread of C. difficile 027 in The Netherlands
- Non-pathogenic bacteria to inhibit colonization with MRSA?
- And finally…‘Out of the eater came something to eat…’
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Micro news - September 2007 Contents: - Recontamination following HPV on an ICU
- RT-PCR is not suitable for detecting MRSA on hospital surfaces
- Bacteriophage therapy for MRSA: cheaper than antibiotics?
- Multiple interventions to reduce %MRSA
- And finally…the dangers of having green fingers!
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Micro news - August 2007 Contents: - “Friendly bacteria” take on the mighty C. difficile
- Increasing rates of C. difficile-associated disease on both sides of the Atlantic
- Cocolonisation with MRSA and VRE in children
- Severe CA-MRSA paediatric infections in the USA
- HCAI rates remain high despite a national hand-hygiene initiative
- And finally…‘the UK’s biggest political football…’
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Micro news - July 2007 Contents: - Importance of environmental contamination – HIS review
- Acinetobacter infections in US soldiers – searching for the source
- Updates on Acinetobacter – outbreaks, clinical significance and cost
- C. difficile environmental contamination: prevalence and molecular types
- Prevalence of paediatric CA-MRSA nasal colonisation: Taiwan vs. Switzerland
- Hypertoxigenicity of C. difficile is not due to the 18-bp deletion in TcdC gene
- And finally…voluntary ingestion of alcohol hand rub
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Micro news - June 2007 Contents: - Environmental contamination in operating department
- VRSA in Iran
- CDAD “disease pressure”
- NICU outbreaks: a special case?
- Fungal contamination of overalls
- Costs of an outbreak of MRSA
- MRSA infection control knowledge in HCWs
- And finally…The Trouble with Medical Journals
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Micro news - May 2007 Contents: - HPV effective for the deactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- MRSA contaminated ambulances
- Environmental contamination with CA-MRSA in a community based outbreak
- Does the built environment influence the incidence of nosocomial infection?
- The ORION statement
- Circumcision as a risk factor for CA-MRSA
- Closure of medical units during outbreaks
- And finally... beware the barber!
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Micro news - April 2007 Contents: - Infection control at home?
- Updates on the costs associated with nosocomial infection
- The clinical impact of methicillin-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
- Attributable mortality of Acinetobacter bloodstream infection
- And finally…dirty letters
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Micro news - March 2007 Contents: - Is PVL the major virulence determinant in CA-MRSA disease?
- USA30 CA-MRSA reaches Europe
- "Creeping" vancomycin resistance in MRSA
- MRSA environmental contamination: "tourniquets and dentists chairs"
- "TW" MRSA in London
- Bleach cleaning reduces the incidence of CDAD
- Updates on the epidemiology and virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii
- Plan to halve MRSA cases by 2008 probably not achievable
- And finally... attention all ravers!
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Micro news - February 2007 Contents: Updates on C. difficile: severity of infection and an 18 base-pair red herring Prevelence of CA-MRSA in children: North America vs. UK Does rapid PCR screening for MRSA reduce transmission? Sampling methods for the recovery of MRSA from environmental surfaces VRSA in a polymicrobial biofilm Widespread fungal contamination in a Greek hospital Hospital-wide outbreak of metallo-B-lactamase producing Gram-negative pathogens And finally... adopting MRSA?
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Micro news - January 2007 Contents: Healthcare-associated infection caused by CA-MRSA: an emerging threat Does PVL explain the characteristics of CA-MRSA infections? MRSA in non-clinical areas How much do medical staff know about infection? And finally…Jack O’Lantern – scarier than you think!
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Micro news - highlights 2006 Contents: - CA-MRSA reaches epidemic proportions in the USA
- CA-MRSA emerges as a common cause of nosocomial infection
- MRSA – the missing link
- C. difficile 027 reaches Europe
- Acinetobacter – increasing prevalence of resistant strains
- Bacterial contamination in hospitals
- Prospective study of MRSA environmental contamination
- Prior room occupancy with an MRSA or VRE is a risk factor for acquisition
- “Source control” – a novel infection control strategy
- And finally…
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