Transmission-based precautions covers droplets, airborne and physical contact. For this CPG, we will only describe the use of contact precautions for epidemiologically important organisms to include Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). 

NOTE: U.S. personnel with skin and soft tissue infections presenting with abscess or furuncles should be assumed to have community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA).