Ana Durovic

TL;DR: This guidance document provides thirty-six statements on strategies to prevent CDI in acute care settings, including 18 strong recommendations, and provides guidance to those responsible for institutional infection prevention and control programmes.

TL;DR: In healthcare settings, future control efforts may need to focus on extending cleaning and disinfection procedures beyond the immediate surroundings of symptomatic carriers, while the role of livestock in entertaining transmission requires further investigation.

TL;DR: The results challenge the utility of the 8-week cutoff for distinguishing recurrent CDI from reinfection and suggest an extended period of 20 weeks may result in improved overall performance characteristics, but this finding requires external validation.

TL;DR: This study provides some insight into differences regarding barriers to vaccination between different occupational groups, which might not have been adequately addressed so far and policy makers should consider such differences when designing campaigns to raise acceptance of influenza vaccine among HCWs.

TL;DR: Recent dental procedures with subsequent back pain should lead to the consideration of possible anaerobic causes of spondylodiscitis, and Heightened awareness of this pathogen and improvements in diagnostic methods might lead to higher detection rates.