862 infection control & hospital epidemiology july 2018, vol. 39, no. 7 acknowledgments
Financial support: No financial support was provided relevant to this article. Potential conflicts of interest: All authors report no conflicts of interest rele-
vant to this article. Address correspondence to Dr Leonard Mermel, Division of Infectious
Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street Providence, RI 02905 (
lmermel@lifespan.org).
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