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cord-313737-cob5hf5q	Otter, J. A.	The inaugural Healthcare Infection Society Middle East Summit: ‘No action today. No cure tomorrow.’	2015-11-30		.txt	text/plain	1671	102	53	1 The conference opened with Professor Tawfik Khoja outlining the challenges to infection prevention and control in the Middle East. Among the challenges he covered were public reporting and external scrutiny, hand hygiene, antibiotic resistance, the healthcare environment, surveillance and outbreaks, an increasingly elderly population, new threats [such as Ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)], meticillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), C. Dr Phin highlighted a useful CDC toolkit providing advice on respiratory protection for healthcare workers, and also a recent BMJ review concluding that facemasks may help to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses in the community. As to which interventions we should use for each organism, this depends on organism and setting, although screening, isolation, stewardship, hand hygiene, and cleaning/ disinfection are the pillars of infection control. Dr Muhammad Halwani then gave an overview of infection control in the Middle East, focusing on acinetobacter and pseudomonas.	./cache/cord-313737-cob5hf5q.txt	./txt/cord-313737-cob5hf5q.txt