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Nosocomial and community-acquired Acinetobacter infections [PDF]

, 2008
Members of the genus Acinetobacter are involved in a wide spectrum of infections. Although this organism is mainly associated with nosocomial infections, these bacteria have been recently shown involved in community-acquired infection.
M.L. Joly-Guillou
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Norovirus Infection and Disease in an Ecuadorian Birth Cohort: Association of Certain Norovirus Genotypes With Host FUT2 Secretor Status. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Although norovirus is the most common cause of gastroenteritis, there are few data on the community incidence of infection/disease or the patterns of acquired immunity or innate resistance to norovirus.
Broncano, N, Chico, ME, Collins, N, Cooper, PJ, Costantini, V, Gregoricus, N, Lopman, BA, Parashar, U, Sandoval, C, Trivedi, T, Vaca, M, Vicuña, Y, Vinjé, J   +12 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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Chronic kidney disease as a risk factor for acute community-acquired infections in high-income countries: a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVE: A systematic review of the association of predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) with the incidence of acute, community-acquired infections.
McDonald, Helen I, Nitsch, Dorothea, Thomas, Sara L   +2 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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Understanding and Controlling Epidemic Spread [PDF]

, 2016
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections continue to spread worldwide. From an epidemiological perspective, risk factors for hospital acquired (HA) infections are most associated, but not limited to, with invasive medical devices ...
Tokajian, Sima
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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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Antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals: results from the second point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017 [PDF]

, 2018
Antimicrobial agents used to treat infections are life-saving. Overuse may result in more frequent adverse effects and emergence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms.
Aghdassi, S., Alberg, T., Arendt, V., Arvaniti, K., Asensio, A., Berg, T. C., Berger-Carbonne, A., Borg, M. A., Bosnjak, Z., Budimir, A., Burns, K., Cairns, S., Cantero, M., Daniau, C., Debacker, M., Deptula, A., Dimina, E., Dobreva, E., Dragovac, G., Florentin, D., Gastmeier, P., Gibbons, C., Gudlaugsson, O., Hadjihannas, L., Hajdu, A., Hansen, S., Harrison, W., Hopkins, S., Hopmans, T., Hristova, R., Ivanov, I. N., Jindrak, V., Johnson, A., Karki, T., Kinross, P., Kontopidou, F., Korosec, A., Latour, K., Litvova, S., Lyytikainen, O., Markovic-Denic, L., Martin, P., McConaghy, M., Mitt, P., Monnet, D. L., Moro, M. L., Nedyalkov, M., Neves, I., Niculcea, A. S., Pacheco, P., Plachouras, D., Presterl, E., Quattrocolo, F., Reilly, J., Rydygier, L., Sartaj, M., Sarvikivi, E., Serban, R. I., Smid, E., Staniulyte, J., Stefkovicova, M., Strauss, R., Suetens, C., Vandael, E., Vilde, A., Weist, K., Zarb, P., Zingg, W., Zotti, C. M., Zupanc, T. L.   +69 more
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Proportion of Aspiration Pneumonia Cases Among Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Single-Center Study in Korea [PDF]

Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2019
Objective To investigate the proportion of aspiration pneumonia cases among patients with community-acquired pneumonia in Korea. Methods This retrospective study included patients with community-acquired pneumonia who had been admitted to the emergency ...
Inpyo Jeon, Gwang Pyo Jung, Han Gil Seo, Ju Seok Ryu, Tai Ryoon Han, Byung-Mo Oh   +5 more
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Community- versus nosocomial-acquired severe sepsis and septic shock in patients admitted to a tertiary intensive care in Saudi Arabia, etiology and outcome

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2015
Summary: Background: Sepsis syndrome is a major worldwide cause of morbidity and mortality. While community-acquired severe sepsis and septic shock constitutes a major cause of admission to the intensive care unit, hospital-acquired severe sepsis and ...
Salim Baharoon, Ayman Telmesani, Hani Tamim, Eiman Alsafi, Sameerah Aljohani, Ebrahim Mahmoud, Hamdan Al-Jahdali   +6 more
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