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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·APIC Masthead

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• Message from APIC

  • ·APIC's strategic partners: Committed to infection prevention

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• Major Articles

  • ·Health care worker hand contamination at critical moments in outpatient care settings

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    James Bingham, Ginnie Abell, LeAnne Kienast, Lorie Lerner, Brittney Matuschek, Wanda Mullins, Albert Parker, Nancy Reynolds, Diane Salisbury, Joan Seidel, Elizabeth Young, Jane Kirk

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  • ·Effectiveness of a multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in the emergency department

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    P.R.H. Arntz, J. Hopman, M. Nillesen, E. Yalcin, C.P. Bleeker-Rovers, A. Voss, M. Edwards, A. Wei

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  • ·A joint, multilateral approach to improve compliance with hand hygiene in 4 countries within the Baltic region using the World Health Organization's SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands model

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    Birgitta Lytsy, Agita Melbarde-Kelmere, Anna Hambraeus, Anna Liubimova, Olov Aspevall

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  • ·Clostridium difficile infection epidemiology and management: Comparison of results of a prospective study with a retrospective one in a reference teaching and research hospital in Northern Italy

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    G. Domeniconi, S. Serafino, M. Migone De Amicis, S. Formica, M. Lanzoni, A. Maraschini, F. Sisto, D. Consonni, M.D. Cappellini, G. Fabio, S. Castaldi

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  • ·Predictors of Clostridium difficile infection–related mortality among older adults

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    Teena Chopra, Reda A. Awali, Caitlin Biedron, Eileen Vallin, Suchitha Bheemreddy, Christopher M. Saddler, Keith Mullins, Jose F. Echaiz, Luigino Bernabela, Richard Severson, Dror Marchaim, Paul Lephart, Laura Johnson, Rama Thyagarajan, Keith S. Kaye, George Alangaden

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  • ·Encouraging employees to speak up to prevent infections: Opportunities to leverage quality improvement and care management processes

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    Julie Robbins, Ann Scheck McAlearney

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  • ·Social media as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship

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    Jennifer Pisano, Natasha Pettit, Allison Bartlett, Palak Bhagat, Zhe Han, Chuanhong Liao, Emily Landon

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  • ·Simethicone residue remains inside gastrointestinal endoscopes despite reprocessing

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    Cori L. Ofstead, Harry P. Wetzler, Ellen A. Johnson, Otis L. Heymann, Thomas J. Maust, Michael J. Shaw

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  • ·Making infection prevention education interactive can enhance knowledge and improve outcomes: Results from the Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study

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    Evonne Koo, Sara McNamara, Bonnie Lansing, Russell N. Olmsted, Ruth Anne Rye, Thomas Fitzgerald, Lona Mody, Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study Team, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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  • ·A pilot study to assess the effectiveness and cost of routine universal use of peracetic acid sporicidal wipes in a real clinical environment

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    Avinandan Saha, Stefan Louis Botha, Paul Weaving, Giovanni Satta

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  • ·Hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus primary bloodstream infection: A comparison of events that do and do not meet the central line–associated bloodstream infection definition

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    Christopher S. Kovacs, Cynthia Fatica, Robert Butler, Steven M. Gordon, Thomas G. Fraser

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  • ·Correlations between quality ratings of skilled nursing facilities and multidrug-resistant urinary tract infections

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    Azad L. Gucwa, Veronika Dolar, Chao Ye, Stephanie Epstein

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  • ·The prevalence and predictive factors of urinary tract infection in patients undergoing renal transplantation: A meta-analysis

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    Xiaohui Wu, Yanyan Dong, Yunhong Liu, Yingxia Li, Yu Sun, Jingna Wang, Shuihui Wang

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  • ·Factors associated with the receipt of antimicrobials among chronic hemodialysis patients

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    Graham M. Snyder, Priti R. Patel, Alexander J. Kallen, James A. Strom, J. Kevin Tucker, Erika M.C. D'Agata

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  • ·Clinical and economic impact of meropenem resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa–infected patients

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    William R. Judd, Patrick D. Ratliff, Ryan P. Hickson, Dana M. Stephens, Charles A. Kennedy

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  • ·Extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak cross-transmitted in an intensive care unit and respiratory intensive care unit

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    Jin'e Lei, Shaoshan Han, Wenjing Wu, Xue Wang, Jiru Xu, Lei Han

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  • ·Epidemiologic characteristics, clinical manifestations, and risk factors of 139 patients with Ebola virus disease in western Sierra Leone

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    Zhe Xu, Bo Jin, Guangju Teng, Yihui Rong, Lijian Sun, Jian Zhang, Ning Du, Liming Liu, Haibin Su, Yue Yuan, Haoyang Chen

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  • ·Mortality in intensive care: The impact of bacteremia and the utility of systemic inflammatory response syndrome

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    Daniel Brooks, Andrew Smith, Douglas Young, Rachael Fulton, Malcolm G. Booth

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  • ·National surveillance of health care–associated infections in Egypt: Developing a sustainable program in a resource-limited country

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    Maha Talaat, Mona El-Shokry, Jehan El-Kholy, Ghada Ismail, Sara Kotb, Soad Hafez, Ehab Attia, Fernanda C. Lessa

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  • ·Risk factors for deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery: Influence of red blood cell transfusions and chronic infection

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    James B. Cutrell, Nicolas Barros, Mandy McBroom, James Luby, Abu Minhajuddin, W. Steves Ring, Philip E. Greilich

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  • ·Use of a provincial surveillance system to characterize postoperative surgical site infections after primary hip and knee arthroplasty in Alberta, Canada

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    Elissa Rennert-May, Kathryn Bush, David Vickers, Stephanie Smith

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  • ·Reduction and sustainability of cesarean section surgical site infection: An evidence-based, innovative, and multidisciplinary quality improvement intervention bundle program

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    Chaur-Dong Hsu, Inna Cohn, Rebeca Caban

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  • ·Risk factors and clinical analysis of candidemia in very-low-birth-weight neonates

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    Jinjian Fu, Xingmin Wang, Ba Wei, Yongjiang Jiang, Jichang Chen

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  • ·Impact of hospital-acquired conditions on financial liabilities for Medicare patients

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    Nicole M. Coomer, Amy M.G. Kandilov

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  • ·A novel infection prevention approach: Leveraging a mandatory electronic communication tool to decrease peripherally inserted central catheter infections, complications, and cost

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    Sue J. Kim-Saechao, Earl Almario, Zachary A. Rubin

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  • ·Reduction in total patient isolation days with a change in influenza testing methodology

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    M.P. Muller, S. Junaid, L.M. Matukas

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  • ·Determining high touch areas in the operating room with levels of contamination

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    Terri Link, Catherine Kleiner, Mary P. Mancuso, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, Katherine Halverson-Carpenter

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• Commentaries

  • ·Is the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistance missing opportunities?

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    Timothy Landers, Kevin T. Kavanagh

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  • ·Teaching health care workers to adopt a systems perspective for improved control and prevention of health care–associated infections

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    A.R. Ruis, David Williamson Shaffer, Daniel K. Shirley, Nasia Safdar

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• State of the Science Review

  • ·The survival and inactivation of enteric viruses on soft surfaces: A systematic review of the literature

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    Thomas Yeargin, David Buckley, Angela Fraser, Xiuping Jiang

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  • ·Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing K pneumoniae: A systematic review

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    Anaelís C. Campos, James Albiero, Alessandra B. Ecker, Cristina M. Kuroda, Lívia E.F. Meirelles, Angelita Polato, Maria C.B. Tognim, Márcia A. Wingeter, Jorge J.V. Teixeira

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• Practice Forum

  • ·Introducing an antibiotic stewardship program in a humanitarian surgical hospital

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    Naina Bhalla, Nagham Hussein, Maha Atari, Rasheed M. Fakhri, Chiara Lepora, Nadia Walsh, Sara E. Cosgrove, Richard A. Murphy

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Acquisition of bacteria on health care workers' hands after contact with patient privacy curtains

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    Mike Larocque, Sally Carver, Addison Bertrand, Allison McGeer, Shelley McLeod, Bjug Borgundvaag

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  • ·Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission

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    Raymond M. Khan, Hasan M. Al-Dorzi, Sameera Al Johani, Hanan H. Balkhy, Thamer H. Alenazi, Salim Baharoon, Yaseen M. Arabi

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  • ·Urinary tract infections and antimicrobial use among Finnish home care clients, April-September 2014

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    Triin Pärn, Matti Mäkelä, Outi Lyytikäinen

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  • ·Statewide assessment of use of infection prevention techniques and technologies

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    Mark E. Rupp, Peg Gilbert, Elizabeth Lyden, Peggy Luebbert

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  • ·Evaluating the impact of the multiplex respiratory virus panel polymerase chain reaction test on the clinical management of suspected respiratory viral infections in adult patients in a hospital setting

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    Colin Yee, Eva Suarthana, Nandini Dendukuri, Ioana Nicolau, Makeda Semret, Charles Frenette

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  • ·Cleaning practices in the hospital setting: Are high-touch surfaces in isolation and standard precaution patient rooms cleaned to the same standard?

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    Allison J. Zelikoff, Timothy H. Dellit, John Lynch, Elizabeth A. McNamara, Vanessa A. Makarewicz

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  • ·Environmental sampling protocol devised and implemented to resolve a nosocomial outbreak due to carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella oxytoca

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    María Carmen Domínguez Jiménez, Salvador Vergara-López

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  • ·Infection prevention and control in dental surgeries in the Pará state prison system in Brazil

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    Clelia Maria A. Lima, Andrew J. Smith, Almenara S. Fonseca Silva, Flávia M. Flório, Luciane Zanin

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  • ·A targeted educational intervention to reduce ventilator-associated complications

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    Eric P. Nolley, Sergio E. Trevino, Hilary M. Babcock, Marin H. Kollef

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  • ·Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized oncology patients

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    Gina Y. Chang, Louise M. Dembry, David B. Banach

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  • ·Dissemination of human adenoviruses and rotavirus species A on fomites of hospital pediatric units

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    Ana Carolina Ganime, José Paulo G. Leite, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Figueiredo, Filipe A. Carvalho-Costa, Fabiana Gil Melgaço, Fabio Correia Malta, Tulio M. Fumian, Marize P. Miagostovich

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  • ·Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea during 2015: Risk-related perceptions and quarantine attitudes

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    E.Y. Kim, Q. Liao, E.S. Yu, J.H. Kim, S.W. Yoon, W.W.T. Lam, R. Fielding

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  • ·Patient shoe covers: Transferring bacteria from the floor onto surgical bedsheets

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    Justin Galvin, Ahmad Almatroudi, Karen Vickery, Anand Deva, Lillian Kelly Oliveira Lopes, Dayane de Melo Costa, Honghua Hu

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  • ·How will the MMR universal mass vaccination change the epidemiologic pattern of mumps? A 2012 Italian serosurvey

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    Silvio Tafuri, Maria Serena Gallone, Angela Maria Vittoria Larocca, Cinzia Germinario

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  • ·Ventilator-associated complications: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of a planned teaching program for intensive care unit staff nurses—an Indian experience

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    Sunil Maurya, Shakti B. Mishra, Afzal Azim, Arvind K. Baronia, Mohan Gurjar

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  • ·Symptom word documentation: A novel approach to identifying and managing hospital-acquired infections

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    Kim Carry-Littles, Kim Nguyen, Todd Rowe, Patricia A. Johnston, Kelly Brassil

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Preventing avoidable central line–associated bloodstream infections: Implications for probiotic administration and surveillance

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    Sonja Skljarevski, Amanda Barner, Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha

    
  • ·Call for improvement in personal protective equipment guidance and research

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    Elizabeth L. Beam

    
  • ·Efficacy of ethanol in hand hygiene against adenoviruses

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    Günter Kampf

    
  • ·Corresponding author's response to letter to the editor on “An adenovirus 4 outbreak amongst staff in a pediatric ward manifesting as keratoconjunctivitis—a possible failure of contact and aerosol infection control”

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    Julian W. Tang

    

• Online Only Articles

  • ·Are there effective interventions to prevent hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease or to reduce environmental reservoirs of Legionella in hospitals? A systematic review

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    Dejanira Almeida, Elisabete Cristovam, Daniel Caldeira, Joaquim J. Ferreira, Teresa Marques

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  • ·Current status of personnel and infrastructure resources for infection prevention and control programs in the Republic of Korea: A national survey

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    Young Kyung Yoon, Sung Eun Lee, Beom Sam Seo, Hyeon Jeong Kim, Jong Hun Kim, Kyung Sook Yang, Min Ja Kim, Jang Wook Sohn

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  • ·Copper alloy surfaces sustain terminal cleaning levels in a rural hospital

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    Shannon M. Hinsa-Leasure, Queenster Nartey, Justin Vaverka, Michael G. Schmidt

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  • ·Decontamination of stethoscope membranes with chlorhexidine: Should it be recommended?

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    José A. Álvarez, Susana R. Ruíz, Juan L. Mosqueda, Ximena León, Virginia Arreguín, Alejandro E. Macías, Juan H. Macias

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  • ·Continued direct observation and feedback of hand hygiene adherence can result in long-term improvement

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    Kazumi Arise, Sayaka Nishizaki, Tamae Morita, Yusuke Yagi, Seisho Takeuchi

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  • ·Risk factors of lower respiratory tract infection in patients after tracheal intubation under general anesthesia in the Chinese health care system: A meta-analysis

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    Xuan Xu, Xianxian Yang, Shangyingying Li, Mei Luo, Ying Qing, Xipeng Zhou, Jian Xue, Jingfu Qiu, Yingli Li

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  • ·Pseudooutbreak of rapidly growing mycobacteria due to Mycobacterium abscessus subsp bolletii in a digestive and respiratory endoscopy unit caused by the same clone as that of a countrywide outbreak

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    Thaís Guimarães, Erica Chimara, Gladys Villas Boas do Prado, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Natalia Garcia Fernandes Carvalho, Fernanda Cristina dos Santos Simeão, Andréia Rodrigues de Souza, Christiane A.R. Costa, Cristina Viana Niero, Urze Adomaitis Brianesi, Thais Romano di Gioia, Laura Maria Brasileiro Gomes, Fernanda de Souza Spadão, Maria das Graças Silva, Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura, Anna S. Levin

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  • ·Profiling the fecal carriage of ?-lactamase genes in long-term care facility residents: A longitudinal study

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    Chang-Hua Chen, Ming-Chuan Chang, Kuan-Hsueh Chen, Han-Yueh Kuo, Ming-Li Liou

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  • ·Multicenter study in Colombia: Impact of a multidimensional International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) approach on central line–associated bloodstream infection rates

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    Carlos A. Álvarez-Moreno, Sandra L. Valderrama-Beltrán, Víctor D. Rosenthal, Beatriz E. Mojica-Carreño, Ismael A. Valderrama-Márquez, Lorena Matta-Cortés, Sandra M. Gualtero-Trujillo, Jazmín Rodríguez-Peña, Claudia J. Linares-Miranda, Ángela P. Gonzalez-Rubio, María C. Vega-Galvis, Iván Riaño-Forero, Beatriz E. Ariza-Ayala, Germán García-Laverde, Otto Susmann, Oscar Mancera-Páez, Narda Olarte, Luis F. Rendón-Campo, Yamileth Astudillo, María del Socorro Trullo-Escobar, Pablo W. Orellano

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  • ·Evaluation of the ability of different detergents and disinfectants to remove and kill organisms in traditional biofilm

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    Cristiana da Costa Luciano, Nancy Olson, Anaclara Ferreira Veiga Tipple, Michelle Alfa

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  • ·Underdetection and underreporting of pertussis in children attended in primary health care centers: Do surveillance systems require improvement?

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    Rubén Solano, Inma Crespo, María Isabel Fernández, Carles Valero, María Isabel Álvarez, Pere Godoy, Joan A. Caylà, Àngela Domínguez

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  • ·High rate of multidrug-resistant organism colonization among patients hospitalized overseas highlights the need for preemptive infection control

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    Kayoko Hayakawa, Kazuhisa Mezaki, Yuko Sugiki, Maki Nagamatsu, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Teruo Kirikae, Satoshi Kutsuna, Nozomi Takeshita, Kei Yamamoto, Yuichi Katanami, Norio Ohmagari

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  • ·Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus spp and its impact on patient outcome

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    Janine M. Rauber, Marcelo Carneiro, Guilherme H.O. Arnhold, Monica B. Zanotto, Patrícia R. Wappler, Barbara Baggiotto, Andréia R.M. Valim, Pedro A. d'Azevedo

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  • ·Biological accidents at work among resident physicians in specialist training at Bari University Hospital, Italy

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    Antonella Basso, Rosaria Serra, Ignazio Drago, Leonardo Soleo, Piero Lovreglio

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  • ·An effective intervention to improve the cleanliness of medical lead clothes in an orthopedic specialized hospital

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    Lu Chen, YingJun Xu, Fengxia Zhang, Qingfeng Yang, Juxiang Yuan

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  • ·Predictors of respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette in a large community in Korea: A descriptive study

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    Jeong Sil Choi, Kyung Mi Kim

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  • ·Evaluation and validity of a polymerase chain reaction–based open reading frame typing method to dissect the molecular epidemiology for Acinetobacter baumannii in an epidemiologic study of a hospital outbreak

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    Yuji Fujikura, Atsushi Yuki, Takaaki Hamamoto, Sadahiro Ichimura, Akihiko Kawana, Kiyofumi Ohkusu, Tetsuya Matsumoto

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  • ·Hand hygiene compliance before and after wearing gloves among intensive care unit nurses in Iran

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    Azam Ghorbani, Leila Sadeghi, Akram Shahrokhi, Asghar Mohammadpour, Mary Addo, Esmail Khodadadi

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