The selective pressure resulting from the extensive use of antibiotics over the last 50 years has led to the emergence of bacterial resistance and to the dissemination of resistance genes among pathogenic microorganisms. Consequently, we are now at serious risk of suffering intractable, life-threatening infections. The progressive emergence and rapid dissemination of resistance to glycopeptides...

background the major challenge for a burn team is nosocomial infection, which is known to be responsible for over 50% of burn-related deaths. most studies on infection in burn patients focus on burn wound infection, whereas other nosocomial infections among these patients have not been addressed well. this study attempts to determine three types of nosocomial infections: burn wound, urinary tra...

INTRODUCTION Nosocomial infections (NI) are a major healthcare problem. National surveillance systems enable data to be compared and to implement new measures to improve our practice. METHODS A multicentre, prospective, descriptive and observational study was conducted using the data from surveillance system for nosocomial infections created in 2007 for Spanish pediatric intensive care units....

Introduction / objectives Nosocomial infections are one of the most important health problems particularly in developing countries, because these infections cause high mortality and morbidity and have many economic loss consequences. To date however most surveillance studies have been conducted in most of developed countries, only a very few have been accomplished in Iran. The aim of this study...

OBJECTIVES The EBIIA (Etude épidémiologique Bactério-clinique des Infections Intra-Abdominales) study was designed to describe the clinical, microbiological and resistance profiles of community-acquired and nosocomial intra-abdominal infections (IAIs). PATIENTS AND METHODS From January to July 2005, patients undergoing surgery/interventional drainage for IAIs with a positive microbiological c...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections are an important public health problem in many developing countries, particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU). Limited data exists on the incidence and burden of nosocomial infection in the ICU in Argentina. METHODS We performed baseline prospective nosocomial infection surveillance of all patients for 6 months in 3 medical-surgical ICUs (MS-ICUs) in Arge...