Attention: WI Healthcare
Providers and Infection Preventionists
The Wisconsin Division of Public Health (DPH), Bureau of Communicable Disease has posted updated infection control information for the Elizabethkingia bacteria and outbreak occurring in Wisconsin on their website, located at: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/disease/elizabethkingia.htm
The Wisconsin DPH and Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) encourages all Wisconsin healthcare providers and infection preventionists to review this information which includes: identification of Elizabethkingia infections; antimicrobial sensitivity testing; infection control measures and healthcare facility response measures.
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