eHealth for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections: a scoping review.

Background: The increase in smartphone use and mobile health applications (apps) holds potential to use apps to reduce and detect healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in clinical practice.

Aim: To obtain an overview of available apps for HAI prevention, by selecting the clinically relevant apps and scoring functionality, quality and usefulness.

Methods: This scoping review of available apps in the iOS and Android app stores uses an in-house-developed tool (scraper https://holtder.

Emergence of a new virulent clone within the electrophoretic type 5 complex of serogroup B meningococci in Norway.

An increase in B:15:P1.12 meningococci among isolates from patients with Neisseria meningitidis infection in Norway in recent years led to further characterization of such strains. Between 1987 and 1992, B:15:P1.