title: Turning up the heat on infection control--APIC's 31st Annual Educational Conference and International Meeting 2004.
abstract: Infection prevention and control is facing new challenges worldwide: emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, increasing resistance of bacterial pathogens, virtually unlimited possibilities of germ transmission due to travel activities, and the necessity to improve emergency and bioterrorism response capabilities. In a way it is designative that the Association of Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) met in Phoenix, the name of which is symbolic of rebirth. Accordingly the conference covered a wide spectrum of infection control-related topics and new aspects thereof. Recognized speakers provided an insight into basic principles and latest updates on several infectious diseases, detection and prevention strategies, patient safety as well as professional development, to name just a few. Networking was the magic word of the event, and all participants were successfully encouraged to start right away with it.
authors.affiliation: Leipzig University Hospital, Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Leipzig, Germany. undine.thofern@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Undine A R
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Thofern
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004189:Disaster Planning; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D005791:Patient Care