Reply to Diekema et al. "Are contact precautions "essential" for the prevention of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?"

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, RUSH Medical College.
• ² Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL.
• ³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁴ Health Care Outcomes Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
• ⁵ Columbia University, School of Nursing, New York, NY. Hackensack Meridian Health, Edison, NJ.
• ⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA.
• ⁷ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
• ⁸ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
• ⁹ Infection Prevention, HCA Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
• ¹¹ Departments of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.