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BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN INFECTION PREVENTION/EPIDEMIOLOGY,
SCIENTIFIC R&D, MANUFACTURING AND REGULATORY/COMPLIANCE
contents
Cover Story
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Environmental Persistence
Candida auris: A Stealth Enemy With
By Kelly M. Pyrek
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Defining
“Clean” in the Healthcare
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Environment: A Microbial Standard is
a Moving Target
Columns
Editor’s Letter
Building Bridges Among Healthcare Stakeholders
By Kelly M. Pyrek
Under the Microscope
Sitting at the Intersection of Microbes and Surfaces
By Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM SVCM,
MBCM, FACSc
Case Study
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Hospital Surface Hygiene: The Opportunity for
Features
vol. 1 no.1
Continuous Antimicrobial Protection
By Maha El-Sayed, PhD
Infection Prevention
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Legionella: Recognizing the Risk and the Resources
By Kelly M. Pyrek
By Sylvia Garcia, MBA, RN, CIC
Hand Hygiene
Applying the Hierarchy of Controls ™ to the 34
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Hand Hygiene: The Problem We Only
Seven Aspects of Surface Selection
By Linda Lybert and Amber Mitchell, DrPH, MPH, CPH
Think We Solved
By Paul Alper
By Kathy Warye
HSI Announces Creation of the Healthcare
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Patient Safety & Quality
Surfaces Certification Program
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Learning from the Past to Protect the Future
By Linda Lybert and Caroline Etland, PhD, MSN
A Decontamination
Carrier Platform to Test Microbial
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Sterile Processing
of High-Touch
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The Missing Science of Sterile Processing:
Environmental Surfaces by Wiping
By Syed A. Sattar, PhD; Bahram Zargar, PhD;
and Saeideh Naderi, PhD
On Credentials and Real Improvement
By Hank Balch
Environmental Hygiene
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Cleaning and Disinfection in the 21st Century
on the cover
This image depicts a strain of Candida
auris cultured in a petri dish at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Candida auris is an emerging fungus
that presents a serious global health
threat. C. auris is difficult to identify with
standard laboratory methods and can
be misidentified in labs without specific
technology. Image courtesy of Shawn
Lockhart/CDC
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By J. Darrel Hicks
Healthcare Textiles & Laundry
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The Modern Healthcare Laundry Will
Shoot for the Moon
By Gregory Gicewicz
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