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Many health care workers do not remove personal protective equipment correctly

Inadequate Adherence for Proper Removal of Protective Gear

Forty-three percent of health care workers remove personal protective equipment in incorrect order
For patients undergoing transrectal prostate biopsy

Targeted Prophylaxis Effective in Post-Prostate Biopsy Sepsis

Targeted prophylaxis similarly effective to empirical prophylaxis after transrectal prostate biopsy

WHO’s Response to Ebola Slowed by Politics, Bureaucracy

Independent, international panel says affected countries acted slowly, WHO is underfunded

June 2015 Briefing – Infectious Disease

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Infectious Disease for June 2015. This roundup includes the...
A new rapid-detection test that diagnoses Ebola within minutes could improve treatment of the virus and help health care workers contain outbreaks

New Rapid Ebola Test Shows Promise in African Clinics

Researchers say fast detection would dramatically improve containment efforts
Cellulitis is frequently misdiagnosed in the inpatient setting

Cellulitis Often Misdiagnosed in Inpatient Setting

Almost 75 percent of patients evaluated for cellulitis eventually diagnosed with pseudocellulitis
Use of acid suppression medication is associated with increased risk of Clostridium difficile infection in infants and children

Acid Suppression Medications Up C. difficile Risk in Children

Increased risk for children aged younger than 1 and for those aged 1 to 17 years
An epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever among several American Indian tribes on two reservations in Arizona has led to more than $13.2 million in societal costs in nine years

CDC: Costly Epidemic of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in AZ

Findings among several American Indian tribes on two reservations in Arizona
Burkholderia cenocepacia is overrepresented in initial stream urine of men with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome

B. cenocepacia Overrepresented in Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain

Species and genus composition differ for men with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome, controls
Biallelic mutations in the dedicator of cytokinesis 2 gene have been identified in children with early-onset severe infections

Mutations in DOCK2 ID’d in Early-Onset Invasive Infections

Biallelic mutations identified in five children with severe infections, autoimmunity, or both