In A Post-Antibiotic Era New Infection Controls Needed

When Hospitals Become Killers by Betsey McCaughey.  Opinion--The Wall Street Journal.  January 30, 2013.

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella, CRK, is emerging as a major threat to public health and hospitals.   This infection has spread even with strict implementation of CDC infection-control precautions.   Powerful antibiotics are increasingly proving ineffective to deal with CRK.  New standards to deal with CRK have been implemented in an infection at an NIH facility and include screening all patients for CRK and more rigorous cleaning (double cleaning with bleach + a hydrogen peroxide sprayer as well as reporting requirements for CRK.