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SECTION HEADS

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    Barry Cookson

    Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection (LHCAI), Health Protection Agency, London, UK

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    Donald Goldmann

    Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Section Topics

  • » Analytical procedures
  • » Antimicrobials: resistance, policy, & control processes
  • » Bacterial infections: gram-negative
  • » Bacterial infections: gram-positive
  • » Device-related infections
  • » Diarrhea
  • » Fungal infections
  • » Health care hygiene
  • » Infection prevention-related quality, patient safety measurement & improvement
  • » Infections in elderly care
  • » Infections in hemodialysis & CAPD patients
  • » Infections in obstetrics & gynecology patients
  • » Infections in oncology patients
  • » Infections in other immunocompromised hosts
  • » Infections in other patients (including renal, liver, CNS)
  • » Infections in pediatric & newborn
  • » Infections in transplant patients
  • » Isolation & prevention precautions (including hand hygiene)
  • » Occupational health
  • » Outbreak investigations
  • » Overall ICU infection control
  • » Respiratory & respiratory-associated infections
  • » Sterilization & disinfection
  • » Surgical site infections
  • » Training
  • » Viral infections

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Increasing antibiotic resistance is one of the major problems in modern medicine, and several concepts facing this problem have been proposed {1,2}. Besides hygiene, antibiotic stewardship minimizing selective pressure is one mainstay in...

Mathias Pletz and Philipp Reuken, University Hospital Jena, Germany. F1000 Respiratory Disorders

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Impact of a hospital-wide programme of heterogeneous antibiotic use on the development of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria.

Takesue Y, Nakajima K, Ichiki K, Ishihara M, Wada Y, Takahashi Y, Tsuchida T, Ikeuchi H. J Hosp Infect. 2010 May; 75(1):28-32

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Mathias Pletz and Philipp Reuken, University Hospital Jena, Germany. F1000 Respiratory Disorders

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