Tag: infections

Remember The War of the Worlds movie? One of the great sci-fi flicks of the 50s. In the film, the seemingly invincible alien invaders are finally vanquished by infections from ubiquitous and innocuous (to humans) bacteria. Yesterday, the US Center for …

The “War of the Worlds” comes home: Drug-resistant bacteria pose potential catastrophe, CDC warns Read More »

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In a September 2013 JAMA Internal Medicine article, Health Care–Associated Infections: A Meta-analysis of Costs and Financial Impact on the US Health Care System, the authors provide estimates of the costs associated with what they termed “significant and targetable” healthcare …

MRSA and C. difficile vaccination: “An ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure”? Read More »

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