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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 2011

Cover Story: Decisions, decisions: Which Staphylococcus Surveillance Assay Should You Use?

Inside: Prize-Winning Case Report From Dr. Anne Dubouix Clinique de L'Union, Toulouse, France

Inside: Summaries of Selected Abstracts Presented in Europe Recently on the Use of GeneXpert MRSA/SA SSTI

From The Editor: David Persing M.D., Ph.D.

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2011

On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2011

Cover Story: The Need for Better Diagnostic Tests for Pediatric Tuberculosis

Inside: Clostridium difficile Ribotype 027: Why Should We Care?

Inside: Wake-Up Call: Proficiency Testing for Today's Technology

From The Editor: David Persing M.D., Ph.D.

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2010

On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2010

Cover Story: How Do You Select a Gold Standard?

Inside: The HAI (MRSA) Consortium

From The Editor: David Persing M.D., Ph.D.

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Spring 2010

Cover Story: Two Premier Seattle Hospitals Opt for Rapid Clostridium difficile Results

Inside: Lancet Laboratories, South Africa, Renovates its TB Processing with implementation of Rapid PCR Assay

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2010

Cover Story: Good medicine is good economically, too

Inside: Summaries of selected abstracts presented at three recent meetings:
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA); Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP); Réunion interdisciplinaire de chimiothérapie anti-infectieuse (RICAI)

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2009

On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2009

Cover Story: Influenza Hijacks Laboratory Efforts Worldwide

Inside: Neonatal Early Onset Group B Streptococcol Disease May Have Met Its Match

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2009

Cover Story:Outbreak! The New Clostridium difficile

Inside: Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci— Still Here, Still a Problem

From The Editor: David Persing, M.D., Ph.D.

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2009

Cover Story: The Decolonization Decision In A New Healthcare Paradigm

Inside: Rapid Results Pay Off for Patients and Healthcare Systems

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2008

On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3, Winter 2008

Cover Story: A New Paradigm for the Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTI) in the Era of MRSA

Inside: Highlights from ICAAC/IDSA A Summary of Selected Presentations with a Focus on Healthcare-Associated Infections

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2008

Cover Story: New England Baptist Hospital: Testing Patients for MRSA and Staph aureus Before Inpatient Surgery

Inside: Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Clostridium difficile; A summary of selected presentations from the 9th Biennial Congress of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas

From The Editor: David Persing, M.D., Ph.D.

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On-Demand Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Cover Story: Universal testing program with the GeneXpert® system optimizes MRSA control efforts

Inside: Clostridium difficile: A Difficult Diagnosis

From The Editor: David Persing, M.D., Ph.D.

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