background and objective: urinary tract infection (utis) is one of the most common diagnosed infectious diseases. in order to determine the spectrum of bacterial etiology and antibiotic resistance pattern of the uropathogens that cause community acquired uti, a retrospective study was performed in research center of reference laboratories of iran on urine samples of referred patients during a 4...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial or hospital acquired infection has been recognized as a serious public health problem in the last twenty years. In most hospitals in Africa-South of the Sahara, although the types of community acquired infections are known, neither the magnitude, nor the common types of nosocomial infections has been documented. OBJECTIVE This study was carried out to find the prevalence...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are that occur in patients 48 h after admission to hospital [...]

VOLUME 93 NO. 9 SEMPTEMBER 2010 Approximately two million patients develop a hospital-acquired infection each year in the USA, contributing to approximately 100,000 deaths. To put this into perspective, there are an estimated 70,000 deaths in the US each year due to accidents of all causes. Thus, hospital-acquired infections are one of the leading causes of death in the US. Until recently, ther...

The epidemiological characteristics of nosocomial infections among patients requiring chronic hemodialysis, a high-risk and rapidly growing population, have not been fully elucidated. During a 30-month cohort study, rates of bloodstream infections (BSIs), urinary tract infections (UTIs), pneumonia, and diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile and the distribution of pathogens among hospitalized...

Nosocomial bloodstream infections are a leading cause of death in the United States. If we assume a nosocomial infection rate of 5%, of which 10% are bloodstream infections, and an attributable mortality rate of 15%, bloodstream infections would represent the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Because most risk factors for dying after bacteremia or fungemia may not be changeabl...