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This clinical reference is designed to assist nurse practitioners with infection prevention and control techniques in a variety of care settings. The book uses a combination of the epidemiologic model, considering host, agent, and environmental factors for each infection with a holistic approach that explores the social, cultural, and economic environment in which infection occurs.

Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-138-8

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• The Host
• The Microbiologic Environment
• The Physical Environment
• The Social Environment
• Patient Care Practices and Medical Devices
• Barrier Precautions
• Antisepsis, Disinfection, and Sterilization
• Chemotherapeutics
• Education and Behavior Change in the Prevention and Control of Infection
• Infection Prevention and the Policy Process
• Lyme Disease at a Boy Scout Camp
• Oral Candida Infection in an Elderly Nursing Home Patient After Antibiotic Therapy
• Staphylococcal Food Poisoning in a University Cafeteria
• Bloodstream Infection from an Arterial Line
• Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureas in a Sternal Wound Infection
• Varicella (Chickenpox) in a Pediatric House Officer
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Homeless Person
• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in an Intensive Care Patient
• Two Children with Haemophilus Influenzae Disease from a Day-Care Home
• Nosocomial Aspergillosis During Hospital Remodeling
• Penicillin-Resistant Gonorrhea in the Community
• Pseudomonas Infection in a Burn Patient
• Herpetic Whitlow in a Critical Care Nurse
• Influenza in an Elderly Resident of a Nursing Home
• Rotavirus in a Day-Care Center
• Measles (Rubeola) in an Immunized Child
• Staphylococcal Sepsis in a Kidney Transplant Patient
• Chlamydia in a Teenage Girl
• Chlamydia Trachomatis Conjunctivitis and Pneumonia in Two Infants
• Community-Acquired Aspergillosis in a Cancer Patient
• Giardia in a Traveler to a Foreign Country
• Clostridium Difficile in a Nursing Home Resident
• Infected Ventricular Shunt in a Child with Hydrocephalus
• Proteus Mirabilis Urinary Tract Infection in an Elderly Person at Home
• Cholera in a 3-Year-Old Child in Bangladesh
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in an Injection Drug User
• Bone Marrow Transplant Patient with Cytomegalovirus Infection
• Community-Acquired Pneumococcal Pneumonia in an Elderly Woman
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a Special Care Nursery
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough) in an Infant
• Occupationally Acquired Hepatitis B in a Health Care Professional
• Tuberculosis Transmission in a Pediatric Hospital
• Legionnaires' Disease: Possible Acquisition on a Cruise Ship
• Group B Streptococcal Disease in an Infant
• School Teacher with Malaria
• Glossary
• Appendix