Infection Control Today, January/February 2023, (Vol. 27, No. 1)

January 25, 2023

Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in health care facilities today.

January 18, 2023

Information for infection preventionists to manage ESBL-producers even while fighting against COVID-19.

January 13, 2023

How do infection preventionists navigate the many—and often contradictory—requirements that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has brought upon them?

January 11, 2023

What do clinicians, infection preventionists, and environmental hygiene personnel do when faced with rare infectious diseases? Matt Pullen, MD, gives ICT® readers a tutorial.

January 10, 2023

How should health care workers, especially infection preventionists, give constructive criticism in their positions?

January 07, 2023

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 6, 2023.

December 28, 2022

Read about the sterilization process of eye instruments and devices.

December 02, 2022

Reluctance to receive the influenza vaccine continues despite years-long campaigns to increase vaccination rates. William Schaffner, MD, speaks to ICT® about how health care workers can respond to the most common questions and assure of the vaccine’s safety and efficacy.

December 01, 2022

Infection Control Today® observes the 34th annual World AIDS Day by speaking to Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, and looking back at what has been done and what the world still needs to do to fight HIV/AIDS.

December 01, 2022

A long-time user of sharps tells of his challenges with and gratitude for sharps.

November 30, 2022

Any decrease in the devastation of Clostridioides difficile is welcomed, but an investigative team brought the numbers down by 50%. See what control measures they used.

November 29, 2022

Because of negative connotations and stigma associated with the term "monkeypox," WHO will fade out the term and use "mpox" in its place.

November 21, 2022

A student-led COVID-19 contact-tracer program reduced exposures and infections at start of the pandemic.

November 16, 2022

Most often, the first place a patient enters a hospital is through the emergency department and sometimes by emergency medical services. Where else to better stop Clostridioides difficile from coming into the hospital than at the entrance?

November 16, 2022

Saskia v. Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC, covers updates on health care associated-infections, masking at schools, and Ebola in Uganda and Dengue in Arizona. Read on for all the details.

November 15, 2022

While treatments are available for hepatitis B virus, no long-term cure has been developed. Progress so far indicates that this core inhibitor candidate is potentially ready for clinical studies.

November 07, 2022

From safety to infection control, facial recognition in health care facilities is a new tool to keep both patients and staff safe from workplace violence.