Month: September 2013

California Health Alert: Failure to Disinfect Reusable Semicritical Instrumentation Poses an Increased Risk of Infection

September 16, 2013 — In 2007 the Health and Human Services Agency Department of Health Services for the state of California advised facility administrators and infection prevention and control professionals,…

Escherichia coli Infections Linked to a Contaminated TEE Probe

September 10, 2013 — An article entitled “Outbreak of Escherichia coli Infections Associated with a Contaminated Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) Probe” appears in next month’s (October, 2013) issue of the journal…