Contact precautions for the control of endemic pathogens: Finding the middle path

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
² Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
³ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, for the ESCMID European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC), Basel, Switzerland.

Editorial

Gonzalo M Bearman et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 24;3(1):e57.

doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.145. eCollection 2023.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
² Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
³ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, for the ESCMID European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC), Basel, Switzerland.

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