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Candida auris is an emerging pathogen responsible for healthcare-associated infections and outbreaks. This organism has a high tolerance to both high temperatures and high salinity. We describe our experience with a C. auris outbreak in an 8-bed inpatient burn unit at an academic medical center.
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Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Electronic Health Records/standards , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , COVID-19 , Humans , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
We employed an interrupted time series analysis to assess the impact of ultraviolet-C light disinfection at terminal discharge in an oncology unit and a bone marrow transplant unit on the incidence of hospital-acquired infections. The deployment of ultraviolet-C light disinfection was associated with a significant decrease in the rate of Clostridioides difficile infections and a significant decrease in the rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the bone marrow transplant unit.