Hunting Health Care-Associated Infections from the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Passive, Active, and Virtual Surveillance Lance R. Peterson* and Stephen E. Brossette Department of Pathology, Clinical Microbiology Division, and Northwestern Prevention Epicenter, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, and MedMined, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama

It is now well established that earthquakes cause various hydrogeological responses at distances thousands of kilometers from the epicenter. What remains unexplained large amplitude and intensity some responses. Following 2004 Mw 9.1 Sumatra earthquake, groundwater 3,200 km epicenter erupted violently a formed water fountain reaching height exceeding 60 m. We model relevant processes by combini...

Automated surveillance using electronically available data has been found to be accurate and save time. An automated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance algorithm was validated at 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenter hospitals. Electronic surveillance was highly sensitive, specific, and showed good to excellent agreement for hospital-onset; community-onset, stud...

Rock temperature reflects the adjustment in crustal stress, and fluctuation of ionospheric electron concentration is closely related to short-term disturbances stress field. Their coupling may reveal effects before strong earthquakes. This study explores rock changes mechanical-electrical lithosphere–ionosphere Jiashi Ms6.4 earthquake on 19 January 2020. The observed data were detrended by gene...