Weekly Rounds: Norovirus 2022-2023 Season, Rodent Infestations, and More
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 3, 2023.
Here are 5 highlights from Infection Control Today®'s (ICT®’s) wide-ranging coverage of the infection prevention and control world. Everything from interviews with known opinion leaders to the news that infection preventionists and other health care professionals can use on their jobs.
Live-Attenuated, Intranasal Vaccines Candidates for RSV and COVID-19
Could live attenuated vaccines and intranasal vaccines be the answer for RSV, COVID-19, and even cancer tumors?
Rodent Infestations and the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Rodents are known to transmit more than 35 illnesses. What signs should environmental services personnel and infection preventionists look for?
Norovirus: Preventing Spread in Food Service and Health Care Facilities
How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus? Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more.
Norovirus: What Experts Say About the 2022-2023 Season
Are norovirus cases going to skyrocket, or will the pandemic slowdown of this infectious disease continue?
FDA VRBPAC Meeting: Bivalent Vaccines, Natural Immunity, Imprinting, and COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates
The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee laid out a simpler direction for SARS-CoV-2 development and deployment.
Comprehensive Strategies in Wound Care: Insights From Madhavi Ponnapalli, MD
November 22nd 2024Madhavi Ponnapalli, MD, discusses effective wound care strategies, including debridement techniques, offloading modalities, appropriate dressing selection, compression therapy, and nutritional needs for optimal healing outcomes.
The Leapfrog Group and the Positive Effect on Hospital Hand Hygiene
November 21st 2024The Leapfrog Group enhances hospital safety by publicizing hand hygiene performance, improving patient safety outcomes, and significantly reducing health care-associated infections through transparent standards and monitoring initiatives.
Managing Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy in HIV: Insights From Michelle S. Cespedes, MD, MS
November 20th 2024Michelle S. Cespedes, MD, MS, discusses the challenges of managing multimorbidity and polypharmacy in HIV treatment, emphasizing patient education, evolving guidelines, and real-world insights from the REPRIEVE study.
Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics to Showcase Breakthrough Vaccine Data at IDWeek 2024
November 19th 2024Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics revealed promising data on universal influenza vaccine LHNVD-110 and AMR sepsis vaccine LHNVD-303 at IDWeek 2024, addressing critical global health challenges.
