Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (Ms Schora and Dr Singh), Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology Research (Mss Schora, Patel, Barza, and Drs Patel and Singh), Department of Medicine (Dr Singh), and Department of Nursing (Mss Wilson, Espina-Gabriel, and Nunez), NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois; University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois (Dr Singh).
Donna Schora, MT (ASCP), Parul Patel, MT (ASCP), and Ruby Barza, MT (ASCP) have over 20 years of experience in clinical microbiology, and along with Jignesh Patel, PhD, have 5 to 22 years of clinical research experience. Kathleen Wilson, RN, Paulette Espina-Gabriel, RN, and Vesna Nunez, RN, are clinical nurse managers with vascular access experience and manage those teams. Kamaljit Singh, MD, has over 25 years of Infectious Disease, Infection Prevention, and Clinical Microbiology experience.
Corresponding Author: Donna Schora, MT (ASCP), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 ([email protected]).
Source of Funding: This research project was funded by Becton Dickinson.