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Multicenter surveillance study of surgical site infection and its risk factors in radical resection of colon or rectal carcinoma

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Colorectal surgery is associated with high rates of surgical site infection (SSI). We investigated SSI in radical resection of colon or rectal carcinoma and its epidemiological distribution in 26 hospitals in China.
Mingmei Du, Bowei Liu, Meng Li, Jingui Cao, Ding Liu, Zhigang Wang, Qiongshu Wang, Pengyun Xiao, Xinling Zhang, Yanxin Gao, Hua Zeng, Jing Yang, Xiaoli Xu, Yi Huang, Qun Zhang, Bo Zhang, Wei Chen, Jieran Shi, Shanhong Fan, Fuxiang Zhang, Jinyan Yang, Huining Yang, Zhaoxia Ding, Haifeng Li, Sha Xiao, Suping Ran, Hongyan Zhai, Fang Wang, Yubin Xing, Jijiang Suo, Yunxi Liu   +30 more
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Clinical characteristics of post-vaccination COVID-19 infection in health care workers exposed to Delta and Omicron variants in a COVID-19 dedicated facility from Qatar [PDF]

Microbes and Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background: Evidence suggests that vaccines efficacy lies on the prevention of severe symptomatic disease. We aim to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 infection among healthcare professionals (HCPs) after vaccination, during periods of ...
Humberto Guanche Garcell, Angel M Felipe Garmendia, Sandra Ibis Gonzalez Perez, Ariadna Villanueva Arias, Yelenis Rosello Alvarez, Miguel A Paulino Basulto   +5 more
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Association between the introduction of a national targeted intervention program and the incidence of surgical site infections in Swiss acute care hospitals

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2023
Background In Switzerland, the national surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance program showed a modest decrease in SSI rates for different procedures over the last decade.
Marcus Eder, Rami Sommerstein, Arlette Szelecsenyi, Alexander Schweiger, Matthias Schlegel, Andrew Atkinson, Stefan P. Kuster, Danielle Vuichard-Gysin, Nicolas Troillet, Andreas F. Widmer, for Swissnoso   +10 more
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Nursing Home Infection Control Program Characteristics, CMS Citations, and Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Policies: A National Study. [PDF]

, 2018
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule required that nursing homes (NHs) develop an infection control program that includes an antibiotic stewardship component and employs a trained infection preventionist (IP).
Agarwal, Mansi, Dick, Andrew W., Herzig, Carolyn T.A., Pogorzelska-Maziarz, Monika, Stone, Patricia W.   +4 more
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Characteristics and Mitigation Measures of Candida auris Infection: Descriptive Analysis from a Quaternary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia, 2021–2022

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023
Objective To analyze the characteristics of C. auris cases, and to describe the interventions applied for improving the diagnosis and controlling the transmission. Method Medical records of C.
Hala A. Amer, Sarah AlFaraj, Kholoud Alboqami, Faleh Alshakarh, Mona Alsalam, Deva Kumar, Juhaina Altayieb, Antisar Alsunid, Nazia Khanum, Nadeem Gul Dar, Muhammad Badawi, Hassan Abdallah, Ziad A. Memish   +12 more
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The control of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in sheep flocks : a mathematical model of the impact of vaccination, serological testing, clinical examination and lancing of abscesses [PDF]

, 2010
A mathematical model of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in sheep flocks was used to evaluate strategies for control and elimination of caseous lymphadenitis (CIA).
Green, Laura E., Medley, Graham, O'Reilly, K. M.   +2 more
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Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2021
Objectives To compile current published reports on nosocomial outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), evaluate the role of healthcare workers (HCWs) in transmission, and evaluate outbreak management practices.
Mohamed Abbas, Tomás Robalo Nunes, Romain Martischang, Walter Zingg, Anne Iten, Didier Pittet, Stephan Harbarth   +6 more
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Derivation and validation of a nomogram for predicting nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia among older hospitalized patients

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022
Background Currently, there is no effective tool for predicting the risk of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) in older hospitalized patients.
Zhihui Chen, Ziqin Xu, Hongmei Wu, Shengchun Gao, Haihong Wang, Jiaru Jiang, Xiuyang Li, Le Chen   +7 more
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Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: control, diagnosis, and treatment. [PDF]

, 2006
The skin disease Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is the third most common mycobacterial disease after tuberculosis and leprosy and mainly affects remote rural African communities. Although the disease is known to be linked to contaminated
Adjei, Amofah, Amofah, Andries, Aujoulat, Bentoucha, Darie, Debacker, Debacker, Debacker, Dega, Dega, Dhople, Dhople, Dhople, Drummond, Eddyani, Eric Comte, Espey, Etuaful, Evans, Evans, Fabienne Nackers, Fehr, Françoise Portaels, Guédénon, Hospers, Huygen, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Kanga, Kanga, Kanga, Klutse, Marsollier, Marsollier, Marsollier, Marsollier, Marsollier, Marston, Meyers, Mve-Obiang, Nakanaga, Noeske, Okenu, Phillips, Phillips, Portaels, Pszolla, Raghunathan, Revill, Rhodes, Scott, Siegmund, Smith, Stienstra, Stienstra, Stragier, Tanghe, Thangaraj, van der Werf, van der Werf, Veitch, Vinciane Sizaire   +64 more
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Patient safety in medical education: Tunisian students’ attitudes

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2022
Health care delivery continues to be unsafe despite major patient safety (PS) improvement efforts over the past decade. Medical school education plays an important role in promoting this culture during initial training. To determine undergraduate medical
Olfa Ezzi, Mohamed Mahjoub, Nihel Omri, Asma Ammar, Dorra Loghmari, Souhir Chelly, Abir Mtira, Sana Rhimi, Mansour Njah   +8 more
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