In 1998, the year of FDA approval, a study at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center showed infection rates fell 70% when doctors switched from using uncoated latex catheters to Rochester's new device.

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In the Netherlands at-risk patients go into isolation, and doctors who are carriers are sent home and can't return until they are cleared, says Margreet Vos, who heads infection control at Erasmus University Medical Center.

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Dole had been readmitted Monday to Walter Reed Army Medical Center near Washington for treatment of a "superficial infection, " according to his spokesman, Doug MacKinnon.

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According to those who have followed the attack at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, a cybersecurity crisis response organization, the infection tool is partially written in Chinese characters and compiled on a computer with Chinese language settings.

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Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, is a big fan of publishing infection rates.

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Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center, notes that aside from Vietnam, the other cases where Acinetobacter infection turned up include after the bombings in Bali and the earthquakes in Turkey.

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"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

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"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

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