Molecular Techniques for the Study of Hospital Acquired Infection

Providing a broad overview of the microbial pathogens associated with hospital-acquired human illness, Techniques for the Study of Hospital Acquired Infection examines the cost-effective use of laboratory techniques in nosocomial infectious disease epidemiology and control. This concise guide addresses the cost benefits of combining modern molecular techniques with the traditional activities of infection control departments. The book is useful as a guide to hospital infection control programs as well as a text for medical practitioners, grad/medical students, researcher scientists, population biologists, molecular biologists, and microbiologists.

Providing a broad overview of the microbial pathogens associated with hospital-acquired human illness, Techniques for the Study of Hospital Acquired Infection examines the cost-effective use of laboratory techniques in nosocomial infectious disease epidemiology and control. This concise guide addresses the cost benefits of combining modern molecular techniques with the traditional activities of infection control departments. The book is useful as a guide to hospital infection control programs as well as a text for medical practitioners, grad/medical students, researcher scientists, population biologists, molecular biologists, and microbiologists.

Contributors.Forword.Preface.Dedication.I. Introduction to Healthcare Associated Infections and TheirControl.1. The Hospital and Ambulatory Care Environment (Anne Y. Chenand Hiren Pokharma).2. Pathogen Transmission in the Healthcare Setting (SonjaHansen and Ralf-Peter Vonberg).3. Infection Control Basics (Louise-Marie Dembry and CarlosTorres-Viera).4. Cost-Effectiveness of IC Program (Marc-Oliver Wright andEli N. Perencevich).5. Outbreak Investigations (Importance of the HealthcareEpidemiologist) (Marcus J. Zervos).6. Pathogen Elimination: Antibiotic and Disinfectant Use and theDevelopment of Resistance (Steven L. Foley, Beilei Ge, Carl M.Schroeder, and Arron M. Lynne).II. Techniques to Characterize Nosocomial Pathogens.7. Rapid PCR Screening Methods (Ngolela Esther BabadyFrankling Cockerill and Robin Patel).8. Restriction Analysis Techniques (Richard V. Goering, MaryStemper, SanjayShukla and Steven Foley).9. Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis (Mary Stemper, StevenFoley Richard V. Goering, and Sanjay Shukla).III. Application of Techniques to Characterize PredominantNosocomial Pathogens.10. Staphylococcus aureus (Vanthida Huang).11. Escherichia coli (Johann D. D. Pitout).12. Fungal Infections (Jose A. Vazquez).Index.