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Epidemiological surveillance of Acinetobacter species

Journal of Hospital Infection, 1990
Two hundred and sixty Acinetobacter isolates were recovered from 237 patients over a 2-year period; 156 isolates from 135 spinal cord injuries unit (SCIU) patients and 104 isolates from 102 patients in all the other hospital units. In SCIU patients, 133 isolates were recovered from the urine, 21 from wounds and aspirates, one from sputum and one from ...
K A, Wise, F A, Tosolini
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Surveillance Objectives: Descriptive Epidemiology

Infection Control, 1987
This paper addresses the problems associated with defining and classifying events as nosocomial infections, discusses the methods by which rates of nosocomial infection are calculated and their rationales, and presents some specific rates useful in nosocomial epidemiology. Previously unpublished data demonstrate important differences between antibiotic
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Surveillance and Epidemiology

1996
Abstract Disasters disrupt normal or existing relationships between people and their environment, and social relationships among and within groups of people. These disruptions require action by public health officials to mitigate the resulting adverse health effects, to prevent as much damage as possible, and to restore delivery of ...
Scott F Wetterhall, Erick. Noji
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Epidemiologic methods for selective surveillance

American Journal of Infection Control, 1987
To allow time for problem-solving and staff education aimed at the prevention of future nosocomial infections, it is necessary for infection control practitioners to decrease the quantity of data-gathering activities and increase the quality of data analysis and action based on the data.
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