Volume 38


Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2017


CONTENTS Original Articles


765 Reduction of Environmental ContaminationWith Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria by Copper-Alloy Coating of Surfaces in a Highly Endemic Setting Maria Souli, Anastasia Antoniadou, Ioannis Katsarolis, Irini Mavrou, Elisabeth Paramythiotou, Evangelos Papadomichelakis, Maria Drogari-Apiranthitou, Theofano Panagea, Helen Giamarellou, George Petrikkos and Apostolos Armaganidis


772 Commentary: Can Copper-Coated Surfaces Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections? David J. Weber, Jonathan A. Otter and William A. Rutala


777 A Multicenter Randomized Trial to Determine the Effect of an Environmental Disinfection Intervention on the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection Amy J. Ray, Abhishek Deshpande, Dennis Fertelli, Brett M. Sitzlar, Priyaleela Thota, Thriveen Sankar C, Annette L. Jencson, Jennifer L. Cadnum, Robert A. Salata, Richard R. Watkins, Ajay K. Sethi, Philip C. Carling, Brigid M. Wilson and Curtis J. Donskey


784 Disinfectant Susceptibility Profiling of Glutaraldehyde-Resistant Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Winona Burgess, Alyssa Margolis, Sara Gibbs, Rafael Silva Duarte and Mary Jackson


792 Management of Risks FromWater and Ice From Ice Machines for the Very Immunocompromised Host: A Process Improvement Project Prompted by an Outbreak of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria on a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (Hsct) Unit Amanda Guspiel, Jeremiah Menk, Andrew Streifel, Keith Messinger, John Wagner, Patricia Ferrieri and Susan Kline


801 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Attributed to Hospital TapWater Cara Bicking Kinsey, Samir Koirala, Benjamin Solomon, Jon Rosenberg, Byron F. Robinson, Antonio Neri, Alison Laufer Halpin, Matthew J. Arduino, Heather Moulton-Meissner, Judith Noble-Wang, Nora Chea and Carolyn V. Gould


809 The Seasonal Variability in Surgical Site Infections and the AssociationWithWarmerWeather: A Population- Based Investigation Chris A. Anthony, Ryan A. Peterson, Linnea A. Polgreen, Daniel K. Sewell and Philip M. Polgreen


817 Effect of Medicare’s Nonpayment Policy on Surgical Site Infections Following Orthopedic Procedures Jereen Z. Kwong, Yingjie Weng, Micaela Finnegan, Robyn Schaffer, Austin Remington, Catherine Curtin, Kathryn M. McDonald, Jay Bhattacharya and Tina Hernandez-Boussard


823 Appropriateness of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients in Italy Mariavalentina Giordano, Lorena Squillace and Maria Pavia


832 Blogging in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology: Assessment of ‘Blogosphere’ Content Gabriel Birgand, Rachael Troughton, Luke S. P. Moore, Esmita Charani, Timothy M. Rawson, Enrique Castro-Sánchez and Alison H. Holmes


840 Hospital-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections in Québec: Impact of Guidelines Lynne Li, Elise Fortin, Claude Tremblay, Muleka Ngenda-Muadi, Christophe Garenc, Danielle Moisan, Jasmin Villeneuve, Caroline Quach and for SPIN-BACC and SPIN-SARM


Cover image: Detail of Lister Introduces Antisepsis, from “The History of Medicine” by Robert Thom, used with permission from University of Michigan Museum of Art.


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