What’s New

• Public Health Ontario Grand Rounds: Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) – Bacteria Without Borders
• Podcast Miniseries on Penicillin Allergy – and intro video
• Canadian study finds that many privacy curtains become contaminated with a drug-resistant bacteria. News video | Journal
• Hand sanitizer might keep you safer from germs than soap and water…from a study that followed 900 kids. News
• Risk of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in patients with a documented penicillin allergy BMJ
• More infection control news…

Latest Reports

• CDI Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• MRSA Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• CPO Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• Hand Cleaning Compliance: Q4 of 2017-2018
• Annual Surveillance Report for the fiscal year 2016-2017

Guidelines & Toolkits

• GI Outbreak Guidelines
• Carbapenemase Producing Organisms (CPO) Toolkit
• Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (ARO) Guidelines
• Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) Toolkit

Upcoming Webinars and Events

• BCCDC Influenza Rounds Webinar (no onsite attendance)

– Influenza 2018-19: Issues and Implications – Nov 6th, 2018

• International Infection Prevention Week – Oct 14-20, 2018

Infection Control Resources

• Precaution Signs
• Infection Control Posters
• Fact Sheets and Brochures
• Infection Control Booklet for Residential Care
• Let’s Go Viral! workshop in-a-box

Webber Teleclasses

• Nov 15: Hepatitis C in prisons – from individual care to viral eradication strategy: a benefit for the community
• Nov 22: Neonatal sepsis prevention in low-resource settings
• Dec 6: Infectious disease highlights and lowlights in 2018, and what to expect in 2019