August 2005 - Volume 33 - Issue 6 : AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control (original) (raw)

August 2005 - Volume 33 - Issue 6

• Major Article

  • Monitoring health care workers after smallpox vaccination

  Findings from the hospital smallpox vaccination-monitoring system
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):315-319

  • Activity of selected oxidizing microbicides against the spores of Clostridium difficile

  Relevance to environmental control
  Justo Perez, V. Susan Springthorpe, Syed A. Sattar
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):320-325

  • Epidemiology and risk factors for extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing organisms

  A case control study at a tertiary care center in Lebanon
  Zeina A. Kanafani, Abla Mehio-Sibai, George F. Araj, Mona Kanaan, Souha S. Kanj
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):326-332

  • Nosocomial bloodstream infections in ICU and non-ICU patients

  Vesna Šuljagić, Miloje Čobeljić, Slavenka Janković, Veljko Mirović, Ljiljana Marković-Denić, Predrag Romić, Dragan Mikić
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):333-340

  • Genetic relatedness of Staphylococcus epidermidis from infected infants and staff in the neonatal intensive care unit

  Vladana Milisavljevic, Fann Wu, Jeannie Cimmotti, Janet Haas, Phyllis Della-Latta, Elaine Larson, Lisa Saiman
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):341-347

  • Barrier properties and cost implications of a single versus a double wrap for storing sterile instrument packs

  Joan Webster, Elinor Radke, Narelle George, Joan Faoagali, Mary Harris
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):348-352

  • Diabetes mellitus and cardiothoracic surgical site infections

  Thomas R. Talbot
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):353-359

• Practice Forum

  • A proactive approach to prevention of health care–acquired Legionnaires' disease

  The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) experience
  Cheryl L. Squier, Janet E. Stout, Sharon Krsytofiak, Joan McMahon, Marilyn M. Wagener, Bruce Dixon, Victor L. Yu
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):360-367

  • Focus group data as a tool in assessing effectiveness of a hand hygiene campaign

  McKinley Thomas, Wanda Gillespie, Janis Krauss, Steve Harrison, Regina Medeiros, Michael Hawkins, Ross Maclean, Keith F. Woeltje
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):368-373

• Letter to the Editor

  • Operating room nurse with permanent stoma

  Karin Lee Ovadia, Yaira Gutman, Ilya Kagan
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):374

  • Contamination of soil with parasites in a Thai hospital

  Viroj Wiwanitkit, Weerachit Waenlor
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):374-375

  • Group A streptococcal infections in long-term care facilities

  Zuber D. Mulla
  AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2005: 33(6):375-376