Rising Fungal HAIs: A “Day Zero” Scenario
Have you been having nightmares about your elderly neighbor becoming infected with Cordyceps and relentlessly chasing after you to spread the “conscious” fungus through a fresh bite? You may have if you have spent the last few months watching HBO’s “The Last of Us” along with 8 million other subscribers. In that show, “Day Zero” of the zombie apocalypse begins when Cordyceps - a fungus that...
Slow Move from Culture Towards WGS Diagnostics?
Time for a change of pace. We usually talk about...
Crossing the Chasm
We often get asked what other institutions are doing...
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When Water Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
Water is the essence of life—nothing can live without it, but what happens when water becomes the...
To Screen or Not to Screen
When investigating HAI outbreaks, your decisions have significant consequences. Implementing...
Just can’t seem to shake it off?
If you’ve been in infection control for a while, you know what it feels like when you seem to have...
What is up with NTM?
Recently, we received multiple requests to help with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM)...
Unmasking promiscuous bacterial species in HAI investigations
When it comes to determining relatedness between isolates in an HAI investigation, you know by now...
Stop HAIs in their tracks…
As the pandemic starts to clear, infection control and microbiology labs are finally getting a...
Sequencing costs are down to $0…
We always believed that whole genome sequencing based surveillance would be the most...
PFGE, MLST and the Alphabet Soup of HAIs
It can be confusing to make sense of the alphabet soup of methods used to test if samples are...
Looking for STEC in all the right places
Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) are remarkably effective treatment options for recurrent C....