Crossing the Chasm
We often get asked what other institutions are doing for their infection control and outbreak detection and how many are actually using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) routinely for outbreak transmission investigations. Well, the answer is…. complicated… Integrating WGS routinely into every outbreak investigation could be costly. It could take time and building a robust platform that can handle...
When Water Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
Water is the essence of life—nothing can live without...
To Screen or Not to Screen
When investigating HAI outbreaks, your decisions have...
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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....
When is a MRSA not a MRSA?
Hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections remain a...
Rooting Out Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from Environmental Reservoirs
Rooting Out Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from Environmental Reservoir. A recent...