Infection and Nursing Practice

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