Report prepared by: Ofelia C. Tablan, MD, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Larry J. Anderson, MD, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Richard Besser, MD, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Carolyn Bridges, MD, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Rana Hajjeh, MD, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Committee Members
Chair: Robert A. Weinstein, MD, Cook County Hospital Chicago, Illinois
Co-Chair: Jane D. Siegel, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Executive Secretary: Michele L. Pearson, MD, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia
Members: Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; Raymond Y.W. Chinn, MD, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California; Elaine L. Larson, RN, PhD, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York; James T. Lee., MD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Ramon E. Moncada, MD, Coronado Physician's Medical Center, Coronado, California; William A. Rutala, PhD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; William E. Scheckler, MD, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin; Beth H. Stover, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky; Marjorie A. Underwood, Mt. Diablo Medical Center, Concord, California
Liaison Representatives: Loretta L. Fauerbach, MS, CIC, Association for Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Shands Hospital at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Sandra L. Fitzler, RN, American Healthcare Association, Washington, DC; Dorothy M. Fogg, RN, BSN, MA, Association of Peri-Operative Registered Nurses, Denver, Colorado; Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland; Chiu S. Lin, PhD, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland; James P. Steinberg, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Inc., Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael L. Tapper, MD, Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, Lennox Hill Hospital, New York, New York