conclusions the results of this study show that the incidence of nosocomial infection in neonates is high and decreasing the risk factors such as prematurity, mechanical ventilation and reducing invasive procedures can decrease the infection and improve rapid recovery in these neonates. patients and methods this cross-sectional retrospective study was performed during an 18- month period (2012 ...

  Background and Objectives: Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections in the human population, and more frequent infection during pregnancy. With notice to this point that most of urinary tract infections during pregnancy are asymptomatic, they could lead to serious complications such as prematurity, low-birth weight, hypertension, and higher fetal mortality rates...

Cryptococcal infection of the lung and meninges is being diagnosed with increasing frequency. The lung is usually the primary site of infection, and the patient may present with cough associated with scanty sputum and infrequent haemoptysis, or the lesion may be detected as an asymptomatic abnormality on chest x-ray. Cryptococcus neoformans is the commonest cause of mycotic meningitis, the pati...

We propose to determine routinely the existence of an H. pylori infection in men and women with reduced fertility. Our proposal is based on the following observations: a) the infection is more prevalent in patients than controls, b) the infection could negatively affect semen quality, c) the presence of H. pylori influences the levels of inflammatory cytokines in the blood stream and stimulates...

Infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among haemodialysis patients. Some of the risk factors specific to this population include repeated access to the blood stream through venous cannulation for dialysis as well as a higher prevalent usage of prosthetic materials like haemodialysis catheters and arteriovenous grafts. In addition, defects in immunity and phagocytosis also cont...

The invention of liver-humanized mouse models has made it possible to directly study the preerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum. In contrast, the current models to directly study blood stage infection in vivo are extremely limited. Humanization of the mouse blood stream is achievable by frequent injections of human red blood cells (hRBCs) and is currently the only system with which to ...

Results During the study period 6616520 patients were hospitalized in 100 hospitals. A total number of 57082 patients got nosocomial infection according to NNIS definitions. The infection rate in 100 hospitals from 2007 to 2010 were 0.6% , 0.87% , 0.96%, 1.1% respectively, (range 0.2% to 5.7%). Urinary tract infections (UTI) was the most common infection (28.9%) among reported cases, followed b...

BACKGROUND Hospital-acquired infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The aim of the study was to investigate the change of nosocomial infection rate in a NICU during a 4-year surveillance period. METHODS We investigated the changes in nosocomial infection rates, infection sites, and microorganism species in a NICU before and after the...

BACKGROUND The prediction of infection and its severity remains difficult in the critically ill. A novel, simple biomarker derived from five blood-cell derived parameters that characterize the innate immune response in routine blood samples, the intensive care infection score (ICIS), could be helpful in this respect. We therefore compared the predictive value of the ICIS with that of the white ...