Editor-in-Chief
David P. Calfee, MD, MS
Deputy Editor
Tara N. Palmore, M.D.
Associate Editors
Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc , Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joshua K. Schaffzin, MD, PhD , Ottawa, ON, Canada
Trevor C. Van Schooneveld, MD , Omaha, NE, USA
David Weber, MD, MPH , Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Statistical Consultants
Eric T. Lofgren, MS, PhD, , Pullman, WA, USA
Jessina C. McGregor, Ph.D. , Portland, OR, USA
Director of Publication
Lindsay MacMurray , Brooklyn, NY, USA
Social Media Editor
Alexander J. Sundermann, DrPH, CIC, FAPIC , Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Managing Editor
Julia Russo , Washington, D.C., USA
Past Editors, Infection Control
Richard P. Wenzel, MD, Infection Control 1980-1987
Past Editors, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Richard P. Wenzel, MD, 1988-1992 (vols. 9-13)
Michael D. Decker, MD, 1993-2001 (vols. 14-22)
Barry M. Farr, MD, 2000-2004 (vols. 23-25)
William R. Jarvis, MD, 2005-2006 (vols. 26 and 27)
Suzanne F. Bradley, MD, 2007-2021 (vols. 28-42)
Editorial Advisory Board
Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH , Durham, NC, USA
Anucha Apisarnthanarak, MD , Pratumthani, Thailand
Lennox Archibald, MD, FRCP , Alachua, FL, USA
Jo Anne Bennett, RN, PhD , New York, NY, USA
David Birnbaum, PhD, MPH , Sydney, BC, Canada
Yehuda Carmeli, MD, MPH , Tel Aviv, Israel
Carol Chenoweth, MD , Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Vincent C.C. Cheng, MBBS, MD , Hong Kong, China
Christopher Crnich, MD, MS , Madison, WI, USA
Erika D Agata, MD, MPH , Providence, RI, USA
Daniel Diekema, MD , Portland, ME, USA
Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, PharmD , Durham City, NC, USA
Curtis J. Donskey, MD , Cleveland, OH, USA
Charles E. Edmiston, Jr., PhD , Milwaukee, WI, USA
Katherine Ellingson, PhD , Tucson, AZ, USA
Charlesnika T. Evans, PhD , Chicago, IL, USA
Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH , Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA
LaToya A. Forrester , Bethesda, MD, USA
Jeffery Gerber, MD, PhD , Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dale N. Gerding, MD , Hines, IL, USA
Donald A. Goldmann, MD , Boston, MA, USA
Nicholas Graves, PhD , Singapore, Singapore
Donna Haiduven, RN, PhD, CIC , Tampa, FL, USA
Anthony D. Harris, MD, MPH , Baltimore, MD, USA
David K. Henderson, MD , Bethesda, MD, USA
Elizabeth Henderson, PhD , Calgary, AB, Canada
Loreen A. Herwaldt, MD , Iowa City, IA, USA
John A. Jernigan, MD, MS , Atlanta, GA, USA
Robin L.P. Jump, MD, PhD , Cleveland, OH, USA
Mini Kamboj, MD , New York, NY, USA
Carol A. Kauffman, MD , Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Michael Klompas, MD, MPH , Boston, MA, USA
Sarah Krein, RN, PhD , Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Karl Madaras-Kelly, PharmD, MPH , Boise, ID, USA
Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD , Omaha, NE, USA
Allison McGeer, MD , Toronto, ON, Canada
Leonard A. Mermel, DO, ScM , Providence, RI, USA
Linda Mundy, MD , Collegeville, PA, USA
Ann-Christine Nyquist, MD, MSPH , Aurora, CO, USA
Pierre Parneix, MD , Bordeaux, France
Jan Evans Patterson, MD , San Antonio, TX, USA
David A. Pegues, MD , Philadelphia, PA, USA
Didier Pittet, MD, MS , Geneva, Switzerland
Anusha Rohit, MD, PhD, Dip RCPath , Chennai, India
William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH , Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH , Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Marin Schweizer, PhD , Madison, WI, USA
Lynne M. Sehulster, PhD , Atlanta, GA, USA
John A. Sellick, DO , Amherst, NY, USA
Erica S. Shenoy, MD, PhD, , Boston, MA, USA
Anna C. Sick-Samuels, MD, MPH , Baltimore, MA, USA
Rachel B. Slayton, PhD, MPH , Atlanta, GA, USA
Xiaoyan Song, PhD, MBBS, CIC , Washington, DC, USA
Arjun Srinivasan, MD , Atlanta, GA, USA
Kurt Stevenson, MD, MPH , Boise, ID, USA
Nimalie Stone, MD , Atlanta, GA, USA
Thomas Talbot, MD, MPH , Nashville, TN, USA
Paul Tambyah, MBBS , Singapore
William Trick, MD , Chicago, IL, USA
Antoni Trilla, MD, PhD , Barcelona, Spain
Kavita Trivedi, MD , Alameda Country Public Health Department, San Leandro, CA, USA
Robert A. Weinstein, MD , Chicago, IL, USA
Marcus Zervos, MD , Detroit, MI, USA