Healthcare Associated Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

This issue of Clinics in Perinatology reviews Healthcare Associated Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Guest Editors Drs. Karen Fairchild and Richard Polin have assembled a panel of expert contributors to pen articles on: Epidemiology and Risk Factors for NICU HAI: Genes and EnvironmentStrategies to Reduce NICU HAI: Line, Tube, and Hand HygieneCandida in the NICU: Pros and Cons of Prophylaxis; MRSA in the NICUNew Concepts of Microbial Translocation in the Neonatal Intestine: Mechanisms and PreventionAntibiotic Resistance in NICU Pathogens: Mechanisms, Clinical Impact, and PreventionBiomarkers for LONS: Cytokines and BeyondHeart Rate Variability: A Novel Physiomarker for Sepsis Detection in the NICUVentilator-Associated PneumoniaPerinatal Infection and PrematurityMeningitis in Neonates: Bench to Bedside