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The Negative Predictive Ability of Immature Neutrophils for Bacteremia in Children With Community-Acquired Infections [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Background: Bacteremia is a serious condition. We aimed to assess the role of immature neutrophils in peripheral blood smears for prediction of bacteremia in children.Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in Salvador, Brazil, blood cultures ...
Alexandre M. Pimentel, Caroline C. Vilas-Boas, Ticiana S. Vilar, Cristiana M. Nascimento-Carvalho, Cristiana M. Nascimento-Carvalho   +4 more
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Epidemiology and microbiological profile comparison between community and hospital acquired infections: A multicenter retrospective study in Lebanon

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2018
Background: The objective of this study is to identify and characterize the species resistance of different pathogens between community acquired and hospital acquired infections pointing at patients’ related independent co-morbidities and socio ...
Roula Matta, Souheil Hallit, Rabih Hallit, Wafaa Bawab, Anne-Marie Rogues, Pascale Salameh   +5 more
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Community-acquired and healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections in a pediatric hospital in southern Brazil over 8 years: how common is MRSA?

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
BackgroundsBoth healthcare-associated and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are relevant in children.
Derrick Alexandre Fassbind, Raíssa Queiroz Rezende, Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias, Fabrizio Motta   +3 more
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Gram negative organisms in community acquired respiratory tract infections [PDF]

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2013
Objective: Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are amongst the most common conditions encountered in our hospitals.The objectives of the study were to determine the frequency and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of various Gram negativebacteria (GNB ...
Muhammad Usman Shah, Mobasser Mahmood, Javaid Usman, Fatima Kaleem, Ali Khalid   +4 more
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Clinical Significance of Community- and Healthcare-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Isolates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
This study was conducted to investigate the clinical significance, manifestations, microbiological characteristics and outcomes of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) isolates, and compare the clinical features of community- and healthcare ...
Hung-Jen Tang, Cheng-Fang Hsieh, Ping-Chin Chang, Jyh-Jou Chen, Yu-Hsiu Lin, Chih-Cheng Lai, Chien-Ming Chao, Yin-Ching Chuang   +7 more
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SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN: NOSOCOMIAL VERSUS COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTIONS

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2013
Sphingomonas paucimobilis is a causative agent of infection in immunocompromised patients, and healthcare-associated infections. Although the infections associated with S.paucimobilis occurs rarely, it has been encountered with increasing frequency in ...
Nuri Bayram, İlker Devrim, Hurşit Apa, Gamze Gülfidan, Hande Namal Türkyılmaz, İlker Günay   +5 more
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Outpatient Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Out of Sight, Away from Prevention

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021
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Mónica Pereira, António Diniz, Filipe Froes   +2 more
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Differences in Microbiological Profile between Community-Acquired, Healthcare-Associated and Hospital-Acquired Infections

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2013
Introduction: Microbiological profiles were analysed and compared for intra-abdominal, urinary, respiratory and bloodstream infections according to place of acquisition: community-acquired, with a separate analysis of healthcare-associated, and hospital-
Teresa Cardoso, Orquídea Ribeiro, Irene Aragão, Altamiro Costa-Pereira, António Sarmento   +4 more
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Using Jigsaw Learning Methodology to Foster Active Learning About Pulmonary Infections

MedEdPORTAL, 2015
Introduction Clinical concepts may be difficult to integrate in the preclinical years but are necessary for the development of clinical reasoning skills.
Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi, Irene Alexandraki   +1 more
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Canadian Hepatitis C Look-Back Investigation to Detect Transmission from an Infected General Surgeon

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2010
BACKGROUND: In February 2007, a general surgeon in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, tested positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV). The surgeon’s infection onset date could not be determined; however, episodic hepatic enzyme elevations were first ...
Meenakshi Dawar, Tammy L Stuart, Lamont E Sweet, Anne M Neatby, Lewis P Abbott, Anton P Andonov, Tom Wong, Robert Gervais, Rob Stirling   +8 more
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