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PICNet Newsletter – March 2024

Exciting Opportunity: Join Our Team as a Senior Practice Leader! Are you a visionary, a trailblazer, and a master of your craft? We’re thrilled to announce that we’re recruiting for a full-time permanent Senior Practice Leader to join our dynamic team! If you or someone you know is interested, check the PICNet website for the posting.    Thank you, Dr. Linda Hoang, Provincial Medical Co-Director, PICNet We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Linda Hoang...

IPAC News for the week of January 22 – 26, 2024

Impact of pregnancy vaccine uptake and socio-demographic determinants on subsequent childhood Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine uptake: A UK birth cohort study. Journal   Efficacy of octenidine- and chlorhexidine-based wash-mitts against Candida albicans and Candida auris – a comparative study. Journal   Sask. Health Authority warns of measles risk after case confirmed in Saskatoon. News   Montreal university study describes COVID-19 sanitary measures as 'generally effective'. News   Rise in measles cases prompts vaccination...

IPAC News for the week of January 15 – 19, 2024

Laboratory diagnosis of measles infection using molecular and serology during 2019–2020 outbreak in Brazil. Journal   An evaluation of the five rights antibiotic safety before and during COVID-19 at an NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. Journal   Spring vaccine dose suggested to protect seniors in Canada from severe COVID. News   Nearly 100 Celebrity cruise passengers get sick in norovirus outbreak. News   Alberta's COVID death toll up by 25 since last...

IPAC News for the week of January 8 – 12, 2024

Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point? Journal   Associations of motility and auto-aggregation with biofilm-formation capacity levels in Clostridioides difficile. Journal   Philadelphia confirms at least 4 measles cases, warns about addition exposures at day care and hospitals. News   JN.1 is Canada’s new dominant COVID-19 subvariant. Here’s what to know. News   Recalled charcuterie meats linked to multistate salmonella outbreak. News   Hundreds hospitalized with influenza in Alberta during holidays, RSV on the...

IPAC News for the week of January 2 – 5, 2024

Estimating the savings of a national project to prevent healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units. Journal   The Added Value of Bronchoalveolar Lavage for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis in High-Risk Hospitalized Patients with Negative Sputum Samples. Journal   'How could this happen?' A look at the E. coli outbreak in Calgary daycares. News   No break for Quebec hospitals as ERs surge past 100 % capacity. News   How Saskatchewan’s outlook on COVID-19 changed in...

IPAC News for the week of December 18 – 22, 2023

Who should be screened for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales and when? A systematic review. Journal   Coping with COVID in corrections: a qualitative study among the recently incarcerated on infection control and the acceptability of wastewater-based surveillance. Journal   Epidemiology of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Present on Hospital Admission: A Multicenter Study. Journal   Six Canadians killed from salmonella outbreak. News   This COVID study has been tracking immunity for 3 years. Now it's running out...

IPAC News for the week of December 11 – 15, 2023

Increase of invasive pneumococcal disease in children temporally associated with RSV outbreak in Quebec: a time-series analysis. Journal   Genomics for antimicrobial resistance surveillance to support infection prevention and control in health-care facilities. Journal   Three dead in outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, CDC warns. News   Wastewater tests showing high levels of COVID and flu circulating in Waterloo region. News   Fears as West Africa battles worst diphtheria outbreak in recent times....