Background: Worldwide, bacteremia is one of the serious infections that cause significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. A wide range microorganisms have been implicated etiology BSIs. Early detection these pathogens along with determination antimicrobial susceptibility patterns shown to improve treatment outcomes. The present study aimed determine microbiological profile BSI...

INTRODUCTION This study had two objectives: 1) to determine the clinical and microbiological profiles of patients developing intravascular catheter-related local (localized catheter colonization and exit site) and systemic infections and their predisposing factors; 2) to study the antibiotic sensitivity patterns of the organisms isolated. METHODOLOGY This case-control study was conducted over...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The major challenge for a burn team is nosocomial infection in burn patients, which is known to cause over 50% of burn deaths. Most studies on infection in burn patients focus on burn wound infection, whereas other nosocomial infections in these patients are not well described. We undertook this study to determine three types of nosocomial infections viz., burn wound infe...

Clinically, biofilm-associated infections commonly form on intravascular catheters and other hydrogel surfaces. For example, annually in the United States, biofilms formed on intravascular catheters are linked to 250,000 blood stream infections with an associated mortality rate of 1225%. To inactivate microbes, antibacterial agents have been released from polymer catheters. However, the overuse...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Bacterial blood stream infections constitute a significant public-health problem and it is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV infected patients. Little is known in developing countries regarding salmonella bacteraemia among HIV patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the bacterial pathogens causing blood stream infection among febrile adul...

348. Rising incidence of carbapenem resistance in health care associated blood stream infections in a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India Sweta Shah, MD; Tanu Singhal, MD, MSc; Reshma Naik, MBA; Microbiology, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India; Infectious Disease and Pediatrics, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India; Infection Prev...