Extensively Drug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outbreak Associated With Artificial Tears.

Background: Carbapenemase-producing, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CP-CRPA) are extensively drug-resistant bacteria. We investigated the source of a multistate CP-CRPA outbreak.

Methods: Cases were defined as a US patient's first isolation of P.

Real-time virtual infection prevention and control assessments in skilled nursing homes, New York, March 2020-A pilot project.

Objective: To describe a pilot project infection prevention and control (IPC) assessment conducted in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in New York State (NYS) during a pivotal 2-week period when the region became the nation's epicenter for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Design: A telephone and video assessment of IPC measures in SNFs at high risk or experiencing COVID-19 activity.

Participants: SNFs in 14 New York counties, including New York City.

Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in small mammals in New York state.

Intensive small mammal trapping was conducted in 12 counties in New York state during 1998-2000 to investigate the prevalence and site specificity of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi in, and presence of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say on, the wild mice Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque and Peromyscus maniculatus Wagner and other small mammal species. Previously captured mice (1992-1997) from throughout New York state also were recruited into the study, providing a total of 3,664 Peromyscus from 107 sites in 31 counties. Infection with B.

Detection of Babesia microti DNA in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by use of Chelex 100 resin and polymerase chain reaction.

A rapid and sensitive protocol using Chelex 100 resin for DNA extraction and the polymerase chain reaction for detection of Babesia microti Franca within its vector Ixodes scapularis Say is described. The level of detection of this protocol was determined to be the approximate equivalent of one parasite.

Babesia microti, upstate New York.

Five cases of human babesiosis were reported in the Lower Hudson Valley Region of New York State in 2001. An investigation to determine if Babesia microti was present in local Ixodes scapularis ticks yielded 5 positive pools in 123 pools tested, the first detection of B. microti from field-collected I.