NCEZID: Our Work, Our Stories 2011-2012
Healthcare-associated Infections
Infectious diseases can be found everywhere, and NCEZID is engaged in preventing, tracking, detecting, and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases throughout the United States and the world. Selected information and NCEZID activities are highlighted in this report.
The links below reference sections of NCEZID: Our Work, Our Stories 2011-2012 with information about healthcare-associated infections.
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Overview of NCEZID's work on healthcare-associated infections
Stories that spotlight healthcare-associated infections
- One & Only: Preventing injection errors in healthcare settings (injection safety) [page 22]
- Leading the hunt for antimicrobial resistance (emerging antimicrobial resistance) [page 27]
- Getting the numbers right—Tennessee confirms success in infection reduction (central line-associated bloodstream infections) [page 47]
- Critical support directed at critical needs (Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement [ELC]) [page 50]
- Having cancer is bad enough, don't let an infection happen (basic infection control) [page 60]
- Stopping the spread of a difficult infection (Clostridium difficile) [page 62]
- Controlling deadly infections in dialysis treatment (bloodstream infections) [page 63]
- A dangerous—and spreading—infection (carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) [page 65]
- CDC responds to multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections [page 99]
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