From stalemate to solution – what should your next move be?
Sometimes a persistent outbreak can feel challenging, like solving a 10,000-piece puzzle. With the complexity of multiple variables coming into play, identifying the transmission routes to find the source becomes a daunting task. You pull out the heavy artillery and do staff screening and environment swabbing, but you can’t seem to catch a break… With the increasing use of whole genome...
How long is enough?
Industry standards warrant a 6-week period of...
Rising Fungal HAIs: A “Day Zero” Scenario
Have you been having nightmares about your elderly...
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Slow Move from Culture Towards WGS Diagnostics?
Time for a change of pace. We usually talk about hospital acquired infections in our Lab Services...
Crossing the Chasm
We often get asked what other institutions are doing for their infection control and outbreak...
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...