Isolation hospitals

Isolation Hospitals

more necessary and more and more used.In earlier days and among backward and primitive peoples much opposition is felt, and many of us remember in India about 15 years ago the plague riots and the burning of plague camps and hospitals by the very people for whose good they were intended. In India the people and the educated classes are only slowly emerging from the dark ages as regards sanitati...

Guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Part I. Evolution of isolation practices, Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.

Isolation and Identification of Stenotrphomonas Maltophilia from the Hospitals of Tehran City

Abstract Background and Objective: Stenotrphomonas maltophilia is an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen with high mortality in immunocompromised cases. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify Stenotrphomonas maltophilia in the hospitals’ environment and wards. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 1108 samples were collected from environment of two hosp...

297Trends in Staphylococcus aureus (SA) Isolation in 28 US Hospitals, 2009-2013

Background. Recent data suggest that healthcare-associated invasive methicillinresistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections are declining in the US (JAMA Intern Med 2013;173:1970). However, such infections are the minority of SA disease. Few studies have examined recent trends in epidemiology of SA clinical isolates that include susceptible, community-onset and non-bloodstream isolates. We performed m...

The Epidemiology of Scarlet Fever in Relation to the Utility of Isolation Hospitals

are devised, it is our obvious duty to persevere with the best-known means of preventing the spread of this disease. The determination to persevere on these lines should be strengthened by our present knowledge of the disease. Although the micro-organism causing scarlet fever has not certainly been isolated, we know that the contagium of this disease, like that of other infectious diseases, is ...