background: bacillus subtilis refers to stretched and sometimes curved, gram-positive, aerobic, and catalase-positive bacilli, which has thermo-resistant endospores. it has been known as a normal flora in the human but can be pathogens in the case of opportunistic. also, it can be the pathogen of nosocomial infections such as wound among hospitalized patients. purpose of this study was to ident...

introduction liver abscess developing during hospital stay in pediatric patients on dialysis for acute kidney injury has been previously unreported. impaired immunity, prolonged use of antibiotics, diabetes and malnutrition predispose to liver abscess in chronic hemodialysis patients. case presentation we reported a case of liver abscess developing in a 6-year-old boy admitted with sepsis and m...

Nosocomial pneumonia is the leading cause of death in patients with hospital-acquired infections. The development of nosocomial pneumonia prolongs hospitalization, which may cause additional days in the intensive care unit, thereby increasing overall health care costs. Empiric treatment of nosocomial pneumonia with therapies that are subsequently shown to be inappropriate therapy (defined as an...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the association between the number of nosocomial infections prior to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) diagnosis as well as to evaluated how it contributed to development of NEC in premature infants. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 51 preterm infants diagnosed with NEC and 71 preterm infants without NEC hospitalized in the neonatal intens...

During 1989, of the 8,524 children admitted to the paediatric wards of Tygerberg Hospital, 165 (1.96%) had bacteraemia. The incidence of community-acquired bacteraemias was 1.6% and that of nosocomial bacteraemias 0.5%. The most important community-acquired isolates were Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Neisseria meningitidis. The most important nosocomial isolates were Klebs...

Staphylococcus epidermidis strains are diverse in their pathogenicity. Some are invasive virulent strains causing serious nosocomial infections; some are skin commensals with a low virulence. The discrimination of them is of great clinical significance. To analyze the implication of different factors in virulence, phenotypical methods were applied. Comparative assessment of the enzymatic activi...

The adaptation of strict hygienic practices by healthcare personnel as well as the implementation of appropriate cleaning and disinfection measures form the basis of infection control policies. However, nosocomial infections constitute a considerable problem even in hospitals with meticulous infection control programmes. This should prompt biomedical researchers to evaluate the efficacy and saf...

a Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Respiratorios, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Valencia, Spain b Neumología, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain c Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA d Unidad de Vigilancia Int...

BACKGROUND Treatment of the nosocomial infections is complicated especially in children due to an increase in the antibiotic-resistant bacteria. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to survey the nosocomial infections in children and determine the antibiotic susceptibility of their causative organisms in teaching hospitals in the north of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS The investigation was des...

BACKGROUND Although diabetes mellitus is known as a major risk factor for Klebsiella pneumoniae infection, the differences in clinical characteristics between community-acquired and nosocomial K. pneumoniae bacteremia in diabetic patients have been rarely reported. METHODS This retrospective analysis enrolled 193 adult diabetic patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia hospitalized between Janua...