Updated GI Outbreak Guidelines
PICNet's Gastrointestinal Infection Outbreak Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities have been updated. The changes and additions are summarized below: Evidence has been weighted according to new Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Rating Scale for Strength and Quality of Evidence (inserted as Appendix). A summary of recommendations with evidence weighting was added. Small wording revisions throughout the document to provide better clarity BCCDC laboratory links and processes were updated. A section on evolving technology to enhance...
What’s wrong with this picture? – Answers and winners!
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Glove Use Challenge. The answers to “What’s wrong with this picture?”, for the four photos below, are as follows: Gloves should not be worn for anything except: Direct patient care when it is anticipated that the hands will be in contact with mucous membranes, non-intact skin, or bodily fluids if the patient is on contact precautions Transporting contaminated items (or potentially contaminated) Cleaning spills of blood or bodily fluids. ...
Studies show that antibiotics and C-sections affect babies’ microbiomes
From GenomeWeb.com: In an attempt to look at how an infant's microbiome develops and changes, two groups of researchers sequenced the microbiomes of more than 80 infants at various time points over their first two years of life, identifying changes between the bacterial makeup that occurred as a result of delivery, antibiotic exposures, and other environmental factors. The studies, published today in Science Translational Medicine, are a first step toward understanding the...
Zoonotic transmission: predictive mapping
Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., has been working on mapping zoonoses. Drawing on hundreds of studies of emerging zoonotic diseases that come from mammals, she has tracked what classes of creature harbor the most known human pathogens, and where those reservoirs are most likely to be found. The results, published Tuesday in the journal Trends in Parasitology, are complicated and...
What’s wrong with this picture? – Week 2
Following our glove use post of last week, here are this week’s photos: .Tell us what’s wrong with these pictures, and enter to win a prize. Leave your comments below! (If you can’t see the Leave A Reply section, click on More, bottom right.) Need a review on correct glove use? Click here...