Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Symptoms of Candida auris can be nonspecific, making diagnosis a challenge. It is most common in long-term ...

Each year, more than two million people contract a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) that can also be antibiotic-resistant. In 2013, these infections resulted in at least 23,000 deaths (CDC). In fact, ...

It won’t take over your brain like the fungus in the HBO series The Last of Us. However, cases of a highly contagious and sometimes fatal fungal infection have risen in recent years. Researchers from ...

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting ...

The Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee of the CDC is revising infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities throughout the country. They have come under considerable criticism ...

Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight against the disease. The BOHEMIA trial, the largest study on ivermectin for ...

Infectious Disease is the study of human and animal diseases caused by microorganisms. Students studying infectious disease at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health take courses in areas ...

Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, is president of Infection Control Consulting Services based in Blue Bell, Pa. Q: Our ambulatory surgery center has brought on a new partner who believes we could save money by ...