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 ...

AIMS To identify the extent of nosocomial adenovirus keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) and assess the effect of a new infection-control policy. METHODS Nosocomial AKC was defined as AKC in patients attending the hospital within 3 weeks of a previous visit for an unrelated non-infective condition. An audit of culture-proven nosocomial AKC was carried out from October 1998 to September 1999 to establi...

Objective: To analyse the Gram-negative bacteriological profile of nosocomial sepsis and antibiotic susceptibility patterns. Methods: Neonates clinically diagnosed with sepsis and whose blood cultures tested positive for Gram-negative microorganisms from 2002 to 2008, retrospectively. Results: 143 cases of neonatal sepsis caused by Gram-negative microorganisms were identified. Eighty-one percen...

Standards for routine surveillance of nosocomial infections have been a fixture in U.S. hospitals since the role of surveillance in reducing rates of infection among hospitalized patients was demonstrated in the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) project.1 Similar standards for infection control surveillance have been adopted in other developed countries.2 Unfortunate...

UNLABELLED Although the transfusionofblood products is common practice, its effects on the immune system have not been adequately studied. A prospective cohort study was conducted in critically ill children followed up until their death, transfer or discharge to establish an association between red blood cell transfusions (RBCTs) and nosocomial infections. A nosocomial infection was considered ...

The rate of morbidity dtle to infection including nosocomial infection during neonatal period is higher than that due to other causes. Th purpose of this study was to know the incidence and risk factors of nosocomial infection . This ttJdy was conducted on all babies treated at the neonatal unit, Sanglah eneral Hospital, Denpasar during the period of April-June 1995. Chi square test was used to...

UNLABELLED Clostridium difficile is the cause of most frequently occurring nosocomial diarrhea worldwide. As an enteropathogen, C. difficile must be exposed to multiple exogenous genetic elements in bacteriophage-rich gut communities. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated) systems allow bacteria to adapt to foreign genetic invaders. Our recent...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether critically ill patients who receive allogenic packed red blood cell transfusions are at increased risk of developing nosocomial infections during hospitalization. DESIGN Retrospective database study utilizing Project IMPACT. SETTING A 40-bed medical-surgical-trauma intensive care unit in an 825-bed tertiary referral teaching hospital. PATIENTS One thousand s...