device-associated nosocomial infection is a significant part of nosocomial infection and can cause the majority of its mortality, morbidity, extra lengths of hospital stay and cost. in a 13-year review, the online database was searched for full articles to find research on epidemiology of device-associated nosocomial infection in pediatric and neonatal wards. twenty two papers were included fiv...

background: the rate of nosocomial infection appears to depend on whether it is calculated using the center for disease control (cdc) or carrier state criteria. the objective of this study was to differentiate between primary endogenous (pe), secondary endogenous (se) and exogenous (ex) infections, and to compare this classification with cdc criteria for nosocomial infections. methods: children...

objectives the aim of this study was to determine the 3 most prevalent bacterial pathogens including acinetobacter baumannii, pseudomonas aeruginosa and staphylococcus aureus causing nosocomial infections and their antimicrobial resistant profiles in patients admitted to three hospitals in tehran city, iran. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, the a. baumannii, p. aeruginosa an...

conclusions the hai prevalence found in this study was lower than hai rates reported in some other studies from iran. the isolates showed high resistance to common antibiotics. guidelines for improving hai surveillance and stringent measures to reduce the prevalence of multidrug-resistant hais must be implemented to reduce the rate and the consequences of hais. results a total of 16,140 patient...

conclusions isaba1 has become an important factor in a. baumannii’s resistance to cefotaxime. results isaba1 located upstream of blaampc was found in 24 (48%) of the a. baumannii isolates. in all of the studied isolates that had isampc, the mic for cefotaxime was 64 - 256 μg/ml. based on the rep-pcr patterns among the resistant isolates, the highest number of isampc positive isolates belonged t...

coagulase-negative staphylococci (cns) are a main cause of nosocomial infection. the main purpose of this study was to determination of frequency of cns isolates in in hospitalized patients and their susceptibility pattern to antimicrobial agents. during 11 month study, 65 cns clinical isolates were recovered from hospitalized patients in different wards of hospital. in vitro susceptibility of ...

results the present study indicates that carbapenems and new cephalosporin antibiotics were practically ineffective against the extensive drug resistance (xdr) strains. colistin was observed to be more effective, although in seven cases resistance to colistin observed. ampc β-lactamase and mbl could be an important contributory factor for imipenem resistance among the isolates in our hospital. ...

BACKGROUND Although several epidemiological surveys of Klebsiella clinical isolates have been performed, few studies have correlated the clinical isolate with disease. OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical and bacteriological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia acquired as community or nosocomial infections. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 158 consecutively hospitalized patien...

OBJECTIVE To measure the proportion of nosocomial diarrhea cases associated with Salmonella and Shigella species. DESIGN Prospective 6-month survey. SETTING Tertiary care center in a developing country. PATIENTS Pediatric and adult patients admitted with the previous 24 hours and all consenting adult or pediatric medical patients with nosocomial diarrhea. OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of ...