Nursing Library & Medical Articles
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Virus Transfer from Personal Protective Equipment to Healthcare Employees' Skin and Clothing
Caring for patients with communicable diseases places healthcare workers (HCWs) at risk. Infected HCWs may not only incur serious illness or death themselves but may spread infection to others. Methods to ...
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Aquatic Invertebrates as Unlikely Vectors of Buruli Ulcer Disease
Mycobacterium ulcerans infection is an emerging skin disease often called Buruli ulcer (BU). Infection results in illness and lasting negative socioeconomic effects in rural areas of the tropics and subtropics (1). ...
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Bacterial Pneumonia and Pandemic Influenza Planning
The threat of a pandemic has been raised by the recent emergence of avian influenza virus (H5N1) in Southeast Asia. If an influenza pandemic of the same magnitude and severity as ...
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Meningitis
What is meningitis? Meningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. People sometimes refer to it as spinal meningitis. Meningitis ...
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Environmental Management of Staph and MRSA in Community Settings
What are Staph and MRSA? Staph is Staphylococcus aureus or a type of bacteria that can cause infections ranging from skin to severe blood infections. MRSA or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is ...
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MRSA
Medical Author: Charles Davis, MD, PhD Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD What is methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)? What are the signs and symptoms of MRSA infection? How is MRSA ...
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P.aeruginosa the real story
P. Aeruginosa Proves to be a Tough Foe The invasive gram-negative bacteria are notorious for their intrinsic (natural) resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics and for their ability to mutate and ...
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Protein Key to Severity of Staph Infections
Protein Key to Severity of Staph Infections Scientists have discovered why some strains of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium ("Staph") can be so dangerous. They hope to use the finding to advance ...
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US Hospital Report Infections Increasing in Frequency and Cost
A new review of inpatient data from U.S. hospitals shows that the number of infections caused by a common bacterium increased by over 7 percent each year from 1998 to 2003. ...
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CDAD: Control and Prevention
By Thomas J. Louie, MD For almost three decades, physicians have recognized that C. difficile (C. diff) infection is the main cause of bacterial diarrhea during or following antibiotic treatment of ...