Blood and body fluid exposures in health-care settings: risk reduction practices and postexposure prophylaxis for health-care workers [0.03%]
医疗卫生机构中的血液和体液暴露：降低医务人员职业暴露风险及暴露后预防措施
Inci Narin,Habip Gedik,Andreas Voss
Inci Narin
This review of last year's literature on blood-borne pathogens (= pathogenic microorganisms that are found in human blood) focuses on hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the most common pathogens,...
Daniel R Kaul
Daniel R Kaul
Over the past decade, the solid organ transplant community has focused increased attention on unexpected transmission of infectious pathogens from organ donor to recipient. While unexpected donor-derived infections are relatively uncommon, ...
Control of drug-resistant pathogens in endemic settings: contact precautions, controversies, and a proposal for a less restrictive alternative [0.03%]
耐药菌流行病学背景下的控制措施：如何采取接触隔离措施、如何解决争议以及如何提出一个相对灵活的替代方案
Gonzalo Bearman,Michael P Stevens
Gonzalo Bearman
Contact precautions are routinely employed for the control of multidrug-resistant organisms. Robust measures, however, for the incremental benefit of contact precautions, gowns, gloves, and active detection and isolation strategies for the ...
Perrine Parize,Blandine Rammaert,Olivier Lortholary
Perrine Parize
Invasive fungal infections continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in severely immunocompromised transplant patients. Although Candida spp. and Aspergillus spp. represent the majority of identified pathogens, other fungi hav...
Clostridium difficile: Changing Epidemiology, Treatment and Infection Prevention Measures [0.03%]
艰难梭菌：变化的流行病学、治疗和感染预防措施
Jane A Cecil
Jane A Cecil
Clostridium difficile was first reported as a cause of antibiotic-associated colitis in 1978. In more recent years we have witnessed disturbing trends associated with C. difficile infection (CDI). CDI has become more common, affecting popul...
Roberta Lattes,Laura Linares,Marcelo Radisic
Roberta Lattes
This article concentrates on parasitic infections that are novel in solid organ transplantation for which there are meaningful data. It also addresses some issues that are either exceptional or a cause for new concern and where the evidence...
Cytomegalovirus in solid organ transplantation: epidemiology, prevention, and treatment [0.03%]
实体器官移植中的巨细胞病毒感染：流行病学、预防和治疗措施
Elena Beam,Raymund R Razonable
Elena Beam
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most important pathogens that infect solid organ transplant recipients. CMV is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in this population as a result of its numerous direct and indirect effects....
Sarah Kirsch,Martina Sester
Sarah Kirsch
Tuberculosis should always be taken into consideration as a possible infectious complication in transplant recipients. It is more frequent and fatal, and its diagnosis, prevention, and treatment are more challenging, in transplanted patient...
Respiratory viral infections in pediatric solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [0.03%]
儿童实体器官和造血干细胞移植的呼吸道病毒感染
Defne Arslan,Lara Danziger-Isakov
Defne Arslan
Respiratory viruses are common in children, including pediatric recipients of both solid organ transplantation and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The prevalence and risk factors in each of these groups are reviewed. Furthermore, a...
Rebekah W Moehring,Deverick J Anderson
Rebekah W Moehring
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) optimize antimicrobial use to decrease the incidence of infection with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) and the emergence of drug resistance, to improve patient outcomes and safety, and to decre...