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(Association for Professionals in Infection Control) Strategies for infection prevention, best practices, the changing legal landscape of healthcare-associated infections and emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria are among the topics that will be covered at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 35th Annual Educational Conference and International Meeting, June 15-19 in Denver, Colo. The meeting is the largest annual gathering of infection prevention and control professionals from around the world.

Background: Australia is developing a chlamydia screening program. This study aimed to determine the attitudes of young women to the introduction of chlamydia screening in Australian General Practice. Methods: In-depth face-to-face interviews with 24 young women from across Victoria, Australia, attending a randomly selected sample of general practices. Results: Young women reported that they would accept age-based screening for chlamydia in general practice, during both sexual-health and non-sexual-health related consultations. Trust in their general practitioner (GP) was reported to be a major factor in the acceptability of chlamydia screening. The women felt chlamydia screening should be offered to all young women rather than targeted at high risk women based on sexual history and they particularly emphasised the importance of normalising chlamydia screening. The women reported that they did not want to be asked to provide a sexual history as part of being asked to have a chlamydia

Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is caused by the larva of tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. Dogs and other canids are the primary definitive hosts for this parasite. CE may develop after accidental ingestion of tapeworm eggs, excreted with the feces of these animals. In the intestine, the larvae released from the eggs are nested in the liver, lungs or other organs of livestock as intermediate hosts and humans as aberrant hosts. The aim of this study was to examine serologically whether some of the patients in Slovenia, suspected of CE by imaging findings in the liver or lungs had been infected with the larva of Echinococcus granulosus. Methods: Between January 1, 2002 and the end of December 2006, 1323 patients suspected of having echinococcosis were screened serologically by indirect haemagglutination assay (IHA). For confirmation and differentiation of Echinococcus spp. infection, the sera of IHA-positive patients were then retested by western blot (WB). Results: Out of 127 I

There was a huge buzz across the UK as people voted in their thousands to push Beth Cameron, from Gullane Primary School, over the finishing line in a national competition to design the official logo for Malaria Awareness Week 2008 (12-18 May). (PRWeb May 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb926134.htm

School partners with Elkhart-Based Sports-O-Zone to combat bacteria. (PRWeb May 9, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb925274.htm

Seventy-seven more people who were treated at a Las Vegas outpatient clinic have been diagnosed with hepatitis C, health officials said.

Canadian authorities quarantined a train in northern Ontario Friday after a woman died and several other people came down with an undetermined illness.