Pen-allergy de-labelling can be a powerful antimicrobial stewardship tool, clarifying options available to prescribers selecting the most appropriate antibiotic for their patients. Join leads in the BC-based multidisciplinary ‘Drop the Label’ initiative as they share successes and challenges in developing, implementing, and scaling up patient education and clinical tools to support prescribers serving people with potential antibiotic allergies.
Stream: NCCID
How Primary Care Providers Can Support Immigrant and Refugee TB Clients
This webinar is part of Canada’s Communicable Diseases and Infection Control (CDIC) Webinar Series and is co-hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Medications (LAI-ARV) Fact Sheet
LAI-ARVs are a new form of combined extended-release antiretroviral therapy that avert the need for daily medications. They are given by injection for both HIV treatment and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This fact sheet overviews these medications’ safety profile, effectiveness and candidacy.
Voices of Sovereignty: Navigating Data Sovereignty and Governance for First Nations
This podcast series explores the challenges, opportunities, and best practices surrounding First Nations data ownership, control, access, and possession.
National Wastewater Monitoring Program
Wastewater has already been used to show early detection of COVID-19 in some Canadian jurisdictions prior to an increase of clinically diagnosed cases. As COVID-19 can be characterized by symptomatic and asymptomatic infection, it is important to identify the presence of undiagnosed cases to minimize the likelihood of outbreaks.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria fowleri is a type of single-celled organism called a free-living amoeba. It lives in soil and warm freshwater and is distributed worldwide. Naegleria fowleri is generally harmless to humans but can cause a deadly infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) if it reaches the brain.
From Sewers to Solutions: Transforming Public Health Through Wastewater Surveillance Success Stories
Over the past few years, wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has rapidly emerged as a valuable tool in public health, providing community-level insights on infectious diseases, substances of potential abuse and other agents of interest.
Measuring What Counts: Equity Prompts for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience
This guidance document encourages decision-making and action for pandemic preparedness and response that explicitly incorporate attention to structural and social determinants of health and address health inequities; and
Augments existing public health system resilience indicators to measure performance in addressing inequities and sustaining or enhancing equitable approaches now and in future outbreaks and pandemics.
Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults Infographic
The Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) management tool provides guidelines for treating CAP among adult patients in Manitoba. The tool integrates antimicrobial stewardship principles for optimizing antibiotic use by incorporating current evidence concerning the choice of drug, dose, delivery method, and duration of therapy for CAP.
Salmonella
Salmonella is a common gastroenteric infection that affects millions of individuals worldwide. Each year in Canada, over 88,000 people are infected with Salmonella. It is one of the top four causes of diarrheal illnesses globally, with cases ranging from mild to severe. More severe infections of Salmonella are rare, but can have life-threatening consequences.
What CAN Antibiograms Tell us? Microbiological insights for antimicrobial stewardship
Antibiograms are convenient antimicrobial stewardship tools, readily available in most Canadian contexts, but remain underutilized by clinicians. Our speakers illustrate and discuss how to use and correctly interpret these data for optimizing antimicrobial use.
mpox
Mpox virus (formerly Monkeypox) is a zoonotic, double-stranded DNA virus, which also includes the variola virus (smallpox), cowpox virus, and vaccinia virus.
Recent research has reclassified the mpox virus into two distinct clades, now officially referred to as Clade I (formerly the Central African or Congo Basin clade) and Clade II (formerly the West African clade).