**LINKS**
Our findings related to the Staph capitis incident response, including links to papers, are summarised on this UKHSA website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/staphylococcus-capitis-guidance-data-and-analysis#:~:text=capitis%20)%20is%20a%20coagulase%2Dnegative,sepsis%20since%20the%20late%201990s
#IPSky #AMSSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Infection2024
Our findings related to the Staph capitis incident response, including links to papers, are summarised on this UKHSA website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/staphylococcus-capitis-guidance-data-and-analysis#:~:text=capitis%20)%20is%20a%20coagulase%2Dnegative,sepsis%20since%20the%20late%201990s
#IPSky #AMSSky #AntimicrobialResistance #Infection2024
Comments
Special thanks to @emrsa15.bsky.social for inviting us to discuss findings of the Staph capitis incident response on the @icmatters.bsky.social podcast
https://infectioncontrolmatters.podbean.com/e/staph-capitis-in-nicu-problem-diagnostic-artefact-practice-indicator-with-dr-alicia-demirjian/
https://infectioncontrolmatters.podbean.com/e/detectio-of-pathogens-in-the-neonatal-icu-environment-with-dr-ginny-moore/
1/ Grateful for NHS colleagues who sounded the alarm. Come talk to us if you see concerning trends in your hospitals or community settings.
Better communication between clinical and public health colleagues improves health outcomes.
This goes both ways.
2/ Although S capitis does not kill infants more than CoNS (it may cause increased morbidity that our study was not powered to detect), it is concerning that a single clone was able to expand in NICUs
This has implications for infection prevention #IPSky
10 steps of an outbreak investigation #IPSky
Current shoe-leather epidemiology is similar to John Snow's approach in linking cases of cholera to the Broad Street pump in 1854
13 steps from CDC Archive
https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson6/section2.html
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