Sentences with phrase «emerging infections surveillance»
And though it's not a substitute for vaccines, hand washing is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease, writes Joel C. Gaydos of the Defense Department's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in a commentary accompanying the report.
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MRSA Action UK continues to campaign to raise awareness and to bring other infections into the forefront of the surveillance programme, to drive down the larger proportion of infections that do not appear in the statistics and to tackle the regional variations and other emerging threats in our hospitals and care facilities.
«Strengthened infection control practices and having a powerful active surveillance program for acute respiratory illnesses are key to the rapid and prompt response for emerging respiratory infections,» cautions lead author I.S. Al - Abaidani, MD, Department of Communicable Disease, Ministry of Health, Oman.
William Castell, chair of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one of the foremost scientists of his generation, whose work — much of it funded by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»
The agency plans to double the number of sites in the Emerging Infections Program — a research and surveillance network of labs, clinics, and state health departments — from 10 to 20.
The bacterial isolates came from urine samples from two patients in Atlanta - area hospitals as part of the nationwide Multi-site Gram - Negative Surveillance Initiative, part of the CDC - funded Emerging Infections Program.
Continued surveillance is critical to monitor these serotypes and antibiotic resistance in order to design better infection prevention and control measures such as inclusion of emerging replacement serotypes in future conjugate vaccines.