1 Division of Gastroenterology and Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA 2 Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 3 Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pathology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA 4 Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Ce...

Infectious Complications Following Implanted Cardiac Device Procedures Joel C. Boggan, MD, MPH; Arthur W. Baker, MD; Kristen V. Dicks, MD; Michael J. Durkin, MD; Sarah S. Lewis, MD; Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH; Luke F. Chen, MBBS, MPH, CIC, FRACP; Lauren Knelson, MSPH; Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA; Medicine, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC; Department of Medicine, Du...

Affiliations: 1 Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA 3 Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore 4 The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation of Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan 5 Department of Mo...

505. Quantitative Analysis of Microbial Burden on Hospital Room Environmental Surfaces Contributing to Healthcare-Associated Infections William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH; Hajime Kanamori, MD, PhD, MPH; Maria Gergen, MT (ASCP); Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS; Lauren P. Knelson, MSPH; Luke F. Chen, MBBS, MPH, MBA, CIC, FRACP; Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA; Daniel Sexton and David J. Weber, ...

Submerged marine terraces potentially provide crucial information on past sea-level variations and paleo-coastline locations that may be used to estimate long-term coastal erosion rates. The Normandy coastline has recently been surveyed using a shallow water high-resolution mapping system. We identified new continuous submarine platform, called the inner limited by shore parallel edge located b...

505. Quantitative Analysis of Microbial Burden on Hospital Room Environmental Surfaces Contributing to Healthcare-Associated Infections William A. Rutala, PhD, MPH; Hajime Kanamori, MD, PhD, MPH; Maria Gergen, MT (ASCP); Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS; Lauren P. Knelson, MSPH; Luke F. Chen, MBBS, MPH, MBA, CIC, FRACP; Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA; Daniel Sexton and David J. Weber, ...