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2016/01/21
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Mutations create challenges for typing Influenza A viruses

From BCCDC: Today the Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network (SPSN) published a paper in Eurosurveillance, entitled “Mutations acquired during cell culture isolation may affect antigenic characterization of influenza A(H3N2) clade 3C.2a viruses”. The paper is available in full here (open access). We thought you would be interested in the findings, although like influenza itself, they are complicated. We have summarized the...

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2015/12/07
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BCCDC Reportable Disease Dashboard

The BC Centre for Disease Control’s public health analytics team has created an interactive tool that provides summary statistics on a variety of reportable diseases and conditions in British Columbia.   ​​You can now search by disease, health region, and date range to see the geographic distribution, age and sex breakdowns, and the counts and rates for each health authority and health service delivery...

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2015/11/19
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Canada Communicable Disease Report: focus on antibiotic resistance

[…] potentially other conditions, learn how optimal vaccine use can minimize the need for antibiotics, and see how the Canadian Institutes of Health Research has been funding research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) innovation. In the ID News section read about the use of nanotechnologies to treat HIV, tuberculosis and yeast infections, and learn about a new protein inhibitor to treat...

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2015/11/06
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NY Microbiome Exhibition

Taking a Christmas vacation to New York? Be sure to take your kids to see The Secret World Inside You, an exhibition of the human microbiome at the American Museum of Natural History. You can read the full story about the exhibition on the New York Times website. An immune cell on the attack against a swarm of disease-causing Staphylococcus bacteria....

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2015/10/29
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Paper pubished on Canadian surveillance of EV-D68

Today the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) in collaboration with each of the local health authorities in BC and partners in Alberta, Quebec and nationally at the Public Health Agency of  Canada published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal EuroSurveillance describing epidemic features of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in Canada during the fall of 2014. For the full publication...

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2015/10/06
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PICNet Co-Directors Lead Pilot Study

NEWS RELEASE from Genome BC Are self-disinfecting surfaces the “Midas” touch for reducing hospital infections? Pilot study examines environmental and genomic solution for healthcare associated infections Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are a major burden on patients and health-care systems worldwide.  Despite strict hygiene practices and other preventative measures in hospitals there are an estimated 220,000 cases with 8,000 deaths per year <mark...

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2024/11/14
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2019 nCoV

FAREWELL TO STEPHANIE, PICNET’S EDUCATION AND PRACTICE COORDINATOR

It is with mixed emotions that we share the news that Stephanie Burniston, Education and Practice Coordinator with PICNet, departed PHSA on November 8th, 2024. We are extremely sad to see her go; however, we’re also elated to continue our partnership with Stephanie in her new position as Director, Population and Public Health Division at the BC Ministry of Health. Stephanie’s infection prevention and control (IPC)...

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2024/08/20
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INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL (IPC) ADVISORY & MPOX GUIDANCE

Date: August 20, 2024   In response to the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of mpox as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on August 14th,  PICNet directs you to provincial IPC guidance for mpox in health-care settings, available on PICNet’s mpox webpage. The mpox guidance is intended for health-care workers in health-care settings, programs and services, including acute care/inpatient settings, primary and community clinics,...

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2024/05/17
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Announcement – Senior Practice Leader: Noorsallah Esmail

We are elated to share the news that Noorsallah Esmail has accepted the role of Senior Practice Leader with the Provincial Infection Control Network of BC (PICNet). Noorsallah transitioned to her new role May 10th, reporting to Tara Donovan, Network Director. In her new position, Noorsallah is leading the Education and Practice team to address provincial infection prevention and control (IPC) priorities and...

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2021/10/01
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2021-10-07 Slides_Laundry in Long Term Care

[…] certified for adhering to established, CMS F Tag, CDC Guideline, OSHA Regulations, HLAC Standards, of TRSA Hygienically Clean Certification CMS F Tag, CDC Guideline, OSHA are mandatory, HLAC and TRSA are voluntary 20 Infection Control Today March 8, 2011 "Of all the surfaces in a hospital, a patient will have the greatest degree of contact with his gown and the bed linens."...

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2021/09/27
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2021-09-29 Slides_Past, Present & Future

[…] we are now•Speculation on the future and a personal view of what problems will continue to keep us interested•Tra d i t i o n a l c u rs e : "May you live in interesting times" ENT outpatients, late 1980s On closer inspection Decontamination in general practice -1988 20 practices in the survey ……… Five practices had autoclaves, one had...

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2021/03/03
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Lunch and Learn Presenter Form

[…] professionals to learn from one another and hear about the experiences of others. The pandemic has created and strengthened many interdisciplinary partnerships with IPAC. We strongly encourage IPAC professionals to co -present with your partners in environmental services, clinical education, and facilities maintenance & operations, just to name a few! If you are interested in presenting, please fill out the following sections:...

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2021/02/16
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2021-02-17 Slides_COVID-19 in New Zealand

[…] Health Hosted by Jane Barnett jane@webbertraining.com www.webbertraining.com February 17, 2021 First media statement 6 th January 2020 " The Ministry of Health is aware of some cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause being reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. We are monitoring the situation. At this stage there appears to be no significant human-to-human transmission. As recommended by the World...

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2020/11/26
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05 Surveillance

[…] c o m ple tio n o f th is m odule t h e I C P will: 1. De sc rib e a s u rv eillan ce p ro gram wit h in t h e I nfe ctio n C ontr ol P ro gram of y ou r f a cilit y a n d asse ss it s s tr en...

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2020/11/26
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04 Microbiology

[…] o ntr ol Numb er of h ou rs • Ke y C on ce p ts - 3 h ou rs • Me thod s - 4 hou rs Required Readings • Information available in Appendix A • APIC Onlin e Tex t Chapter s 21- 26 Additional Helpful Resources • Delost MD. Introduction to Diagnostic Microbiology for the Laboratory Sciences. 1st Ed....

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2020/11/26
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02 Routine Practices and Additional Precautions

[…] ca u tio n s (RP AP) 2 . Dem on str a te a n un de rsta ndi ng o f t h e a p plic atio n o f R PAP in th e clin ic al are as u si ng t h e case s c en ario s p ro vi ded in te rms of: − Con side...

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2020/11/26
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08 Occupational Health_2

[…] t h e I C P w ill: 1 . De mon str a te a k no wle dge o f th e Occu patio n al Healt h p ro gram wit h in t h e fa cilit y 2 . De sc rib e t h e s c re en in g p ro ce ss for in fe ctiou...

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