Top Infection Control Papers - ICPIC 2013 Edition

Andreas Widmer and I had the honor of presenting the "Best" Papers lectures at ICPIC this year. In case we spoke too quickly or you couldn't make it to Geneva this year, we have have posted the slides below. We wish we could have included many more papers since the quality of infection prevention research has increase immensely over the past decade (e.g. Huang's REDUCE MRSA study and Bonten's MOSAR trial).

ICPIC 2013 - 25-28 June 2013 - Geneva

ICPIC 2013 by HUG

I really enjoyed speaking at and attending the 1st International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC) in 2011. It was great opportunity to share the best science and best practices with colleagues from around the world. I hope to see many of you there in 2013.

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Nothing to see here, please move along

It's been a quiet week out here on the edge of the blogging prairie. Some of us are recertifying, some are in the middle of huge grant deadlines and some are chairing a giant meeting planning committee with the meeting imminent. But, we still think about you every second and we miss providing you with up-to-date infection prevention information...

In the interim, we have created a little poll off to the right, which you can use to let us know how you like to read or follow the blog.  Vote early and often.

From the nothing to see here column: We've heard new reports that the NIH KPC outbreak that was halted by whole-genome sequencing is back. On September 7th there was a new case of the KPC strain, the first since January and 19th overall. The blood stream infection resulted in the unfortunate death of boy from Minnesota, the seventh fatality attributable to the strain.

NOW SEE THIS: Registration for ScienceOnline2013 is now officially open. It's the seventh annual un-conference exploring science on the Web and takes place Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2013, in Raleigh, NC. Registration for the first round of 100 slots is closed for today, but there are two more opportunities to register: Thursday, Sept 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM (EDT) and Friday, Sept 21, 2012 at 11:00 PM (EDT). By rumor I heard that these sessions last only minutes, so log on near those start times and keep refreshing your browser. All seems pretty exciting.