Michael O. Vernon

TL;DR: Exposure to duodenoscopes with bacterial contamination was associated with apparent transmission of NDM-producing E coli among patients at 1 hospital and facilities should be aware of the potential for transmission of bacteria including antimicrobial-resistant organisms via this route.

TL;DR: Cleansing patients with chlorhexidine-saturated cloths is a simple, effective strategy to reduce VRE contamination of patients' skin, the environment, and health care workers' hands and to decrease patient acquisition of VRE.

TL;DR: Ring wearing was associated with 10-fold higher median skin organism counts; contamination with Staphylococcus aureus, gram-negative bacilli, or Candida species; and a stepwise increased risk of contamination with any transient organism as the number of rings worn increased.

TL;DR: Automated bloodstream infection surveillance using electronic data is an accurate alternative to surveillance using manually collected data and should be considered as a viable alternative to manual surveillance.

TL;DR: A multimodal intervention program increased adherence to hand hygiene recommendations, especially to the use of alcohol-based hand rubs during a 3-year period, and a concomitant reduction was found in the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria among isolates from clinical cultures.