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Healthcare Infection Healthcare Infection
Volume 14 Number 3 2009


Pandemic influenza: inappropriate fear causes inappropriate responses. In healthcare we need good surveillance data to make the best decisions 

Peter Collignon

pp. 77-79

 


Economic rationale for infection control in Australian hospitals 

Nicholas Graves, Kate Halton, David Paterson and Michael Whitby

pp. 81-88

  
 


Comparison of the BD™ GeneOhm MRSA assay, broth enrichment culture and chromID™ MRSA for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from inter-hospital intensive care transfer patients 

Sharon Kleinschmidt, Christopher Lidstone, Belinda Henderson and Joan Faoagali

pp. 89-93

  
 


Blood culture contamination in a district general hospital in the UK: a 1-year study 

Nadeem Sajjad Raja, David Parratt and Marilyn Meyers

pp. 95-100

  
 


Validation of surgical site infection surveillance in Perth, Western Australia 

Leigh S. Goggin, Helen van Gessel, Rebecca L. McCann, Allison M. Peterson and Paul G. Van Buynder

pp. 101-107

  
 



Reducing harm to patients from health care associated infection: the role of surveillance. Chapter 3: Surgical site infection – an abridged version 

Marilyn Cruickshank, John Ferguson and Ann Bull

pp. 109-114

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Clostridium difficile infection: an update for infection control practitioners 

Helen Van Gessel, Thomas Riley and Alistair McGregor

pp. 115-118

  
 


Meeting national recommendations for surgical site infection surveillance: examples and lessons from the Victorian Healthcare-associated Infection Surveillance System 

Leon J. Worth, Ann L. Bull, Sue M. Thorpe and Michael J. Richards

pp. 119-122

  
 


Journal Watch 


pp. 123-126

  
 


AICA National News (August 2009) 


pp. i-vi

 


  
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