OBJECTIVE To study the pathogen distribution, antimicrobial susceptibility and risk factors of postoperative nosocomial infections among children with congenital heart disease. METHODS Three hundreds children with congenital heart disease admitted to our hospital to receive surgeries from February 2010 to February 2013 were selected. RESULTS A total of 120 children were tested as positive b...

objectives the aim of this study was to determine the 3 most prevalent bacterial pathogens including acinetobacter baumannii, pseudomonas aeruginosa and staphylococcus aureus causing nosocomial infections and their antimicrobial resistant profiles in patients admitted to three hospitals in tehran city, iran. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, the a. baumannii, p. aeruginosa an...

Infection of the hepatobiliary system is most commonly due to enteric bacteria. We report three unusual cases of acute cholecystitis in which Staphylococcus aureus was the primary pathogen. Infection of the gallbladder with this organism has been rarely described and may be associated with gallstones and obstructive disease as well as acalculous cholecystitis in the setting of staphylococcal ba...

background: healthcare-associated infections such as nosocomial infections (ni) are important causes of mortality worldwide. objectives in this study we evaluated the nosocomial infections terms of microbiology (resistance, culturing, etc.) in a referral pediatric hospital based on national nosocomial infection surveillance system. patients and methods in an epidemiological surveillance study d...

BACKGROUND Wound infections are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence, aetiology and susceptibility profile of bacterial agents of wound infection among in- and- out patients at a rural tertiary hospital in Nigeria, within a 5 year period. METHODS Wound swabs collected from 156 out-patients and 353 in-patients were, cultured and microbial ...

Nosocomial infections are major clinical threats to hospitalised patients and represent an important source of morbidity and mortality. It is necessary to develop rapid detection assays of nosocomial pathogens for better prognosis and initiation of antimicrobial therapy in patients. In this study, we present the development of molecular methods for the detection of six common nosocomial pathoge...

background and objectives: bacterial bloodstream infections (bsis) and surgical site infections (ssis) are among the most common nosocomial infections with high mortality and morbidity. we aimed to evaluate the frequency of various species among bsis and ssis at tehran heart center, tehran, iran. methods: patients with localized or systemic infections that became evident 48 hours or more after ...

b a ckground: s taphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) has remained always an important pathogen of common infections acquired in community and as  well as serious nosocomial infections. with advent of penicillins and cephalosporins, infections could be effectively treated, but with the global emergence of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus strains (mrsa) physicians were  again left  with li...

in the last decade, along with the problem of nosocomial infections, multidrug-resistant bacteria in community and hospitals have soared. high frequencies of multidrug-resistant bacteria have been grouped under the acronym eskape: enterococcus faecium, staphylococcus aureus, klebsiella pneumoniae, acinetobacter baumannii, pseudomonas aeruginosa and enterobacter spp. the eskape pathogens are res...