Sunday, April 3, 2011: 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Trinity Ballroom (Hilton Anatole)
Late Breaking Abstracts
LB 1
Impact of the CMS Policy to Adjust Payment for Healthcare-Associated Infections
Grace Lee, MD, MPH, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Children's Hospital Boston;
Christine W. Hartmann, PhD, Bedford VA Medical Center; Boston University School of Public Health;
William Kassler, MD, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;
Denise Graham, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology;
Maya Dutta-Linn, MPH, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute;
Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN, Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System and University of Michigan;
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, University of Michigan and Ann Arbor VA Medical Center;
Donald Goldmann, MD, Institute for Healthcare Improvement;
Scott Fridkin, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Neil Fishman, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine;
John Jernigan, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Teresa Horan, MPH, CIC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
LB 2
Antimicrobials for Wound Infections after Earthquakes: Closing the Gap between Guidelines and Microbes
Ian N. Miskin, MD, Clalit Health Services, Jerusalem District;
Ran Nir-Paz, MD, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center;
Colin Block, MBBCh, PhD, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center;
Ofer Merin, MD, Shaare Zedek Medical Center;
Sa'ar Burshtein, B.Tech, Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps;
Sergey Pirogovsky, B.Pharm, MHA, Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps;
Tamar Halperin, PhD, Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps;
David Schwartz, PhD, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center;
Mitchell J. Schwaber, MD, MSc, National Center for Infection Control
LB 5
An Outbreak of Human Parainfluenza Virus 3 Infection in an Outpatient Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Clinic: Implications for Surveillance and Infection Control
Emily RM Sydnor, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Amy Greer, PhD, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Alicia P. Budd, MPH, Department of Hospital Epidemiolgy and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital;
Miriana Pehar, BSN, Department of Hospital Epidemiolgy and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital;
Supriya Munshaw, PhD, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Dionissios Neofytos, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Alexandra Valsamakis, MD, PhD, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
LB 6
High rate of incongruent results when validating the BD GeneOhm StaphSR assay on wound/ skin and soft tissue swab specimens
Jo-anne M. Salangsang, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
Lee H. Harrison, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
Carlene A. Muto, MD, MS, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
Jane W. Marsh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
A. William Pasculle, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
LB 7
Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections Among Residents at a Skilled Nursing Facility — Pennsylvania, 2009–2010
Allison H. Longenberger, PhD, MPT, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Pennsylvania Department of Health;
Aimee Palumbo, MPH, Pennsylvania Department of Health;
Neil Gupta, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Julie Marsden, MA, Montgomery County Health Department;
Chris Van Beneden, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Nimalie D. Stone, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Carolyn Gould, MD, MSCR, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Kirsten Waller, MD, Pennsylvania Department of Health
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