Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian influenza within 24 hours.

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor ...

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs are tasked with implementing the appropriate isolation of patients with ...

"Right now lots of people are coming to the hospital with respiratory tract infections and we don't know whether it's viral ...

The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

Doctors should use infection control ... diagnostic test is most readily available" for the initial diagnosis, according to the CDC. Subtyping tests should be performed in the hospital clinical ...