BACKGROUND Nosocomial infection (NI) control is an important issue in neurocritical care due to secondary brain damage and the increased morbidity and mortality of primary acute neurocritical care patients. The primary aim of this study was to determine incidence of nosocomial infections and multidrug-resistant bacteria and seek predictors of nosocomial infections in a preventive multimodal nos...

Most high-income countries implement tuberculosis (TB) infection control programs to reduce the risk for nosocomial transmission. However, such control programs are not routinely implemented in India, the country that accounts for the largest number of TB cases in the world. Despite the high prevalence of TB in India and the expected high probability of nosocomial transmission, little is known ...

The term “nosocomial pneumonia” broadly covers all infections occurring 48 hours or more after hospital admission excluding any infection incubating at the time of admission, and has also been called hospital acquired pneumonia. Intensive care unit (ICU) acquired pneumonia (occurring within 48 hours of admission to the ICU) and ventilator associated pneumonia (occurring within 48 hours of start...

Abstract A healthcare–associated infection (nosocomial infection) is an that acquired in any health care facility. This can be hospital, nursing home, diagnostic laboratory,outpatient clinic, rehabilitation facility or other clinical settings. Infection spread to the patient different ways. Medical staff also infection, beside contaminated equipment,air droplets bed linens. The developed from o...

Introduction / objectives Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common type of nosocomial infections. The majority of nosocomial UTIs occur following instrumentation. Because nearly 10% of all hospitalized patients are catheterized, preventing nosocomial UTIs is a major factor in decreasing nosocomial infections. The aim of the study was to register the prevalence, etiology and antimicro...

Enterococci are common inhabitants of intestinal tracts of humans and animal are consider as important causes of hospital acquired infection. They are the second most common cause of nosocomial infections and the third most common cause of nosocomial bacteremia (Ike, et al., 1987). Within recent years, a great deal has been learned about the epidemiology and risk factors for nosocomial enteroco...

Nosocomial Infections: Coliform and Proteus bacilli currently cause 29 percent of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections in the United States. In order of decreasing frequency, the major sites of nosocomial infection are the urinary tract, surgical sites, bloodstream, and pneumonias. This group of nosocomial pathogens are responsible for 46% of urinary tract and 24% of surgical site infectio...

Surveillance activities for the detection of nosocomial infections at the University of Virginia Hospital (Charlottesville, Virginia) and at hospitals participating in the Virginia Statewide Infection Control Program have focused on outbreaks and device-related infections which are potentially preventable. Eleven outbreaks of nosocomial infections were identified at the University of Virginia H...

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...