Background Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI) is considered a ward-based nosocomial infection, due to contagion among patients. Molecular studies recently questioned ward-based contact for disease spread. Objective To investigate whether it is plausible that CDI spread in San Martino Hospital of Genoa was due to a ward-based contact and patient-to-patient diffusion. Methods We conducted ...

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B6. 16292 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:749-54. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been an increasing problem since its isolation in England in 1961. 1 The publicity surrounding MRSA, and nosocomial infection in general, has never been greater. The introduction by the Department of Hea...

BACKGROUND The role of public reporting in improving hospital quality of care is controversial. Reporting of hospital-acquired infection rates has been introduced in multiple health care systems, but its relationship to infection rates has been understudied. Our objective was to determine whether mandatory public reporting by hospitals is associated with a reduction in hospital rates of Clostri...

Enterococci, leading causes of nosocomial bacteremia, surgical wound infection, and urinary tract infection, are becoming resistant to many and sometimes all standard therapies. New rapid surveillance methods are highlighting the importance of examining enterococcal isolates at the species level. Most enterococcal infections are caused by Enterococcus faecalis, which are more likely to express ...

    Abstract   Background: Hepatitis B virus infection is an important cause of liver morbidity and   mortality worldwide. HDV changes the natural course of HBV. The prevalence of HDV infection wasn’t determined in the various groups of HBV infection (carriers, acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and HCC) in Iran. We aimed to research the prevalence of hepatitis D virus infection in v...

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 Hospital is a gathering place for all kinds of diseases, both infectious and non-communicable. In terms origin or infection, it can come from the community (community acquired infection) hospital environment (Hospital which was previously known as nosocomial infection. The purpose this study to analyze influence individual, organizational behavioral factors on nurse compliance in...

In this study a total of 219 patients who developed nosocomial infections and were treated in Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital between January 2001 and March 2003 were evaluated retrospectively. In all, 337 bacterial strains were isolated in these patients. The aim of our study was to assess the causative agents of catheter-related nosocomial infections, the distribution rate of causa...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Prevention of infection in burned patients poses a great challenge as infection is the most common cause of mortality after burn injury. An analysis of burned patients, admitted and treated between January 2004 and December 2005 in a nine-bed burn unit in Turkey, was performed prospectively to identify the common pathogens and incidence of nosocomial infection in these pa...

Background & Objective: Nosocomial infection is one of the most daunting challenges to the global health care system. The current study aimed to compare the antimicrobial resistance pattern in hospital versus community-acquired infections in pediatric patients in Besat Hospital, Hamadan, Iran. Materials & Methods: The current study was carried out on all patients with a hospital-acquired infec...