MRSA and C Diff may be relative new-comers on the scene, but hospital acquired infections have been around as long as hospitals have. It was Joseph Lister's groundbreaking work on aseptic surgery which offered the first hope of a solution in this life-or-death situation.
Join Professor Hugh Pennington, an eminent microbiologist who has advised on numerous outbreaks of E-Coli, C Diff and other infections, who will be speaking at the Wellcome Library about his hero Lister, the impact of Lister's work and how it relates to the challenges facing us today. The event will be hosted by Quentin Cooper from Radio 4's Material World, and will feature a mystery object - to be revealed at the event.
Where: Wellcome Library
When: 15 June 2011, 19:00-20:00
Book free tickets for the event.
Author: Eleanor Lanyon
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Hospital Infection Society
You may think that hospital infections like MRSA and C. difficile are 21st century phenomena, but this is not the case. The Hospital Infection Society was set up in 1979 to provide information to those interested in hospital acquired infections. Since then the Society has worked to create and disseminate a body of scientific knowledge about the prevention and control of hospital and other healthcare associated infections through actions such as publishing The Journal of Hospital Infection, providing grants and bursaries to support work in the field, and awarding the Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC) along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection (LHCAI).
The catalogue of their archives up to 1995, deposited with the Wellcome Library in September of that year, is now available to view online for the first time through the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
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