Ch. 1: HAI Controversies: Contact Precautions
Elise Martin, Zachary Rubin, Rekha K. Murthy
Ch. 2: Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technologies: Implementation and Outcomes
Claudia Denisse Jarrin Tejada
Ch. 3: Universal Glove and Gown Use for the prevention of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)
Lindsay Croft, Daniel J. Morgan
Ch. 4: Isolation Precautions for Visitors to Healthcare Settings
Maroun Sfeir, Matthew S. Simon, David Banach
Ch. 5: Bacterial contamination of the anesthesia work area: hands, patients, and
things
Derya Mahmutoglu, L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Ch. 6: Infection Control in the Outpatient Setting
John Daniel Markley, Michael P. Stevens
Ch. 7: New Technologies for Infection Prevention
Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 8: What is the Role of Mobile No-touch Disinfection Technology in Optimizing
Healthcare Environmental Hygiene?
Philip C. Carling
Ch. 9: Universal MRSA/Staphylococcal Decolonization for Hospitalized Patients
Edward J Septimus
Ch. 10: Staphylococcal Decolonization in Surgery Patients
Andrew Ludwig, E. Patchen Dellinger
Ch. 11: The Surgical Care Improvement Project redux: Should CMS revive
process of care measures for prevention of surgical site infections?
Deborah S. Yokoe
Ch. 12: Healthcare Worker Apparel and Infection Prevention
Salma Muhammad Abbas, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 13: Antimicrobial Textiles and Infection Prevention – Clothes and Inanimate
Environment
Rachel H. McQueen, Briana Ehnes
Ch. 14: Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli - Infection Prevention
Considerations
Oryan Henig, David E. Katz, Dror Marchaim
Ch. 15: Active surveillance cultures for MRSA, VRE, Multidrug Resistant Gram-
negatives
Amar Krishna, Teena Chopra
Ch. 16: C. difficile Microbiome manipulation
Jenna Wick, Tinzar Basein, Shira Doron
Ch. 17: Air Contamination in the Hospital Environment
Luis A. Shimose, Eriko Masuda, Ana Berbel Caban, L. Silvia Munoz-Price
Ch. 18: Vertical versus horizontal infection control interventions
Salma Muhammad Abbas, Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens
Ch. 19: The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist
Kristina A. Bryant
Ch. 20: Whole Genome Sequencing for Outbreak Investigation
Tara N. Palmore
Ch. 21: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Preparedness
Angela Hewlett, Angela M. Vasa, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Shelly Schwedhelm
Ch. 22: Probiotics and Infection Prevention
Whitney Perry, Shira Doron
Ch. 23: Animals in Healthcare Settings
Rekha K. Murthy, Vivek Pandrangi, David J. Weber
Ch. 24: Decolonization in Infection Control of Gram-negative Bacilli
David Thomas, David Banach
Ch. 25: Testing water for Legionella Prevention
Brooke K. Decker, Cornelius J. Clancy
Ch. 26: The importance of C. difficile colonization on infection prevention
Natalia Blanco, Surbhi Leekha
Ch. 27: Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel
Bryan D. Harris, Thomas R. Talbot
Ch. 28: Controversies in Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance
Geetika Sood, Surbhi Leekha
Ch. 29: Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Outside the Intensive Care Unit
Megan Buller, Kyle J. Popovich
Ch. 30: Airborne Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment: The Powered
Air-Purifying Respirator-Only Approach
Pranavi V. Sreeramoju, Jose Cadena
Ch. 31: Donning and Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Is Training
Necessary?
Michelle Doll, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman
Ch. 32: Rapid Diagnostics in Infection Prevention
Sara Revolinski, Angela M. Huang, Allison Gibble
