Putting contact precautions in their place

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: fidelmafitzpatrick@rcsi.ie.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Editorial

F Fitzpatrick et al. J Hosp Infect. 2017 Jun.

. 2017 Jun;96(2):99-100.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2017.02.012. Epub 2017 Mar 2.

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: fidelmafitzpatrick@rcsi.ie.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

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