title: What's trending in the infection prevention and control literature? From HIS 2012 to HIS 2014, and beyond.
abstract: This is an informal review of some of the trends in the infection prevention and control literature since the last Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) conference in late 2012. Google Trends was used to investigate how the volume of interest in various infection control topics had changed over time. Ebola trumped all the others in Google searches, reflecting a surge of publications in the literature. Aside from Ebola, other trends in the infection prevention and control literature covered in this article include Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, universal versus targeted interventions, faecal microbiota transplantation, whole genome sequencing, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and some aspects of environmental science. The review ends with an attempt to predict some of the trends in the infection prevention and control literature between now and the next HIS conference in 2016.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research (CIDR), Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK. Electronic address: jonathan.otter@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Otter
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: CRE; Ebola; Environmental science; Faecal microbiota transplantation; Infection prevention and control; MERS; Targeted interventions; Trends; Universal interventions; Whole genome sequencing