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: Q1 of 2018-2019
• MRSA Quarterly Update: Q1 of 2018-2019
• CPO Quarterly Update: Q1 of 2018-2019
• Hand Cleaning Compliance: Q1 of 2018-2019
• Annual Surveillance Report for the fiscal year 2016-2017

Guidelines & Toolkits

• Updated: Respiratory Infection Outbreak Guidelines
• 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 (recording)

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

• Jan 17: The 2019 WHO Global Survey
• Jan 31: Barriers and facilitators to Clostridium difficile infection prevention, a nursing perspective
• Feb 7: The effectiveness of tuberculosis infection control strategy in high HIV/TB-burden settings