Nosocomial or hospital acquired infections have become a major cause of morbidity and mortality today. The reported rates of nosocomial infection vary depending on the efficiency of the surveillance system and the definitions of infection employed. In the United States it has been estimated that about 5% of hospitalised patients acquire a nosocomial infection. This works out to be nearly 2 mill...

Nosocomial invasive aspergillosis can cause life-threatening infections among immunosuppressed patients and is thought to be primarily airborne. Despite the use of appropriate hospital air filtration systems, however, the incidence of this infection continues to increase. In this article, we present our hypothesis, which is that nosocomial aspergillosis can be airborne from a water source in th...

Surveillance activities for the detection of nosocomial infections at the University of Virginia Hospital (Charlottesville, Virginia) and at hospitals participating in the Virginia Statewide Infection Control Program have focused on outbreaks and device-related infections which are potentially preventable. Eleven outbreaks of nosocomial infections were identified at the University of Virginia H...

Objective: To evaluate the frequency of nosocomial adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) infection and to assess the effect of an improved infection control policy on reduction of its incidence. Design: Prospective, observational, clinical study. Participants/Methods: Patients with suspected AKC and treated at Moorefields Eye Hospital emergency department were evaluated as well as a collection ...

The scientific basis for claims of efficacy of nosocomial infection surveillance and control programs was established by the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control project. Subsequent analyses have demonstrated nosocomial infection prevention and control programs to be not only clinically effective but also cost-effective. Although governmental and professional organizations have...

conclusions although nurses are the most involved occupational group in documented ns, surgeons are the most important high risk hcw who need pep. no case of seroconversion has taken place as a result of pi. this means that the current pep may have an effective role in hiv prevention. results from a total of 369 cases, 273 (74%) were hcws, among which nurses (70%) were the most involved employe...

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BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections constitute a global health problem. OBJECTIVES To explore the relationship between nosocomial infection rates (NIRs) and climatic factors including temperature and relative humidity in Guangzhou area of China. METHODS 30892 patients in our hospital in 2009 were investigated for nosocomial infection status, and the contemporaneous temperature and relative hum...