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Though antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) varies greatly among providers

Antibiotics Often Prescribed for Veterans With ARIs

Substantial variation in antibiotic prescribing habits among individual providers at the VA
Methods for cleaning

Review Examines Strategies for Cleaning Hospital Room Surfaces

Few studies compare effectiveness of disinfecting methods and monitoring strategies
Despite adherence to current U.S. reprocessing guidelines

Current Cleaning Protocols Not Enough for Endoscopes

Microbes still adhering to endoscopes, even after multi-step disinfection protocols followed
Bacterial biofilms are associated with ocular prostheses

Bacterial Biofilms Identified in Ocular Prosthesis

SEM imaging identified small colonies of rod-shaped bacilli adherent to surface of prosthesis
Almost $8 billion in hospital bills could be avoided over five years by halting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

CDC: Action Needed to Better Control Drug-Resistant Infections

Hospitals, health departments, long-term care facilities must share information

July 2015 Briefing – Infectious Disease

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for July 2015. This roundup includes the...
An experimental Ebola vaccine appears highly effective

WHO: ‘Ring’ Vaccination for Ebola Very Promising

Initial trials in Guinea show 100 percent effectiveness; larger trials are planned
Vertebral osteomyelitis should be considered in cases of back or neck pain unresponsive to conservative measures and elevated inflammatory markers with or without fever

Recalcitrant Back Pain Could Be Vertebral Osteomyelitis

New guidelines from ISDA alert doctors to this possibility
Continuous and intermittent administration of β-lactam antibiotics are similarly efficacious for patients with severe sepsis

Outcomes Equal for Continuous, Intermittent β-Lactams in Sepsis

No differences in ICU-free days, 90-day survival, organ failure-free days, bacteremia duration
About one-third of survivors of sepsis or septic shock are readmitted within 30 days

One-Third of Septic Shock Survivors Readmitted

Readmitted patients have higher chronic illness burden, prevalence of health care-linked sepsis