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Nosocomial infections and nosocomial pneumonia

The American Journal of Surgery, 1996
Nosocomial infections are a major source of revenue loss, morbidity, and even mortality to surgical patients. This review presents current issues regarding nosocomial infections and nosocomial pneumonias. This study is a literature review that presents material on nosocomial infections in general and details regarding Clostridium difficile and ...
J, Hong, J M, Davis
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Neumonia Nosocomial [PDF]

Nova, 2006
Se definen como infecciones nosocomiales las que ocurren después de 48 horas de hospitalización. Las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos neonatales, pediátricas y de adultos son las áreas de mayor prevalencia debido al perfil del paciente, a las terapias y a los procedimientos invasivos a los que son sometidos quienes ingresan.
Olga Lucia Ostos Ortiz, Yolanda Cifuentes, Rubinsten Hernández Barbosa, Liliana Muñoz Molina   +3 more
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Nosocomial Infection

Critical Care Medicine, 2021
Objective: The first 70 years of critical care can be considered a period of “industrial revolution-like” advancement in terms of progressing the understanding and care of critical illness. Unfortunately, like the industrial revolution’s impact on the environment, advancing ICU care of increasingly elderly, immunosuppressed ...
Marin H, Kollef, Antoni, Torres, Andrew F, Shorr, Ignacio, Martin-Loeches, Scott T, Micek   +4 more
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Rapid antigen testing as a reactive response to surges in nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 outbreak risk [PDF]

, 2022
Healthcare facilities are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 introductions and subsequent nosocomial outbreaks. Antigen rapid diagnostic testing (Ag-RDT) is widely used for population screening, but its health and economic benefits as a reactive response to local ...
Temime, Laura, Zahar, Jean Ralph, Opatowski, Lulla, Duval, Audrey, Smith, David RM   +4 more
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Diagnostic and prognostic performance of urinary neutrophil gelatinase‐associated lipocalin in patients with cirrhosis and acute kidney injury

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Diagnostic and prognostic ability of urinary NGAL in patients with cirrhosis and AKI. Abstract Background and Aims Acute kidney injury (AKI) commonly occurs in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Urinary neutrophil gelatinase–associated lipocalin (uNGAL) could help discriminate between different etiologies of AKI.
Carmine Gambino, Salvatore Piano, Matteo Stenico, Marta Tonon, Alessandra Brocca, Valeria Calvino, Simone Incicco, Nicola Zeni, Roberta Gagliardi, Chiara Cosma, Martina Zaninotto, Patrizia Burra, Umberto Cillo, Daniela Basso, Paolo Angeli   +14 more
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The ongoing challenge of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in Europe: an epidemiological analysis of bloodstream infections

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2020
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infections are of great public health significance due to limited therapeutic options. We investigated epidemiological trends and risk factors of vancomycin resistance in enterococci isolates from patients with ...
Olaniyi Ayobami, Niklas Willrich, Annicka Reuss, Tim Eckmanns, Robby Markwart   +4 more
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Aerobiología en hospitales de Guayaquil: microorganismos resistentes a cobre

Revista de Investigaciones en Energía, Medio Ambiente y Tecnología, 2023
The present work reports the presence of bacteria and fungi in particulate matter suspended in the exterior of three hospitals in Guayaquil, during the month of March 2019, winter time.
Tamara Borodulina, Carlos Banchon, Linda Diaz, Amano Yasuji   +3 more
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Risk Predictors for Mortality in Inpatients with Cancer and Coronavirus Disease 2019 during the Omicron Wave

Journal of Cancer Research and Practice, 2023
Background: Patients with cancer are a high-risk population in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We analyzed the characteristics and risk factors for mortality in hospitalized patients with cancer and laboratory-confirmed severe acute ...
Kuan-Yu Chen, Chih-Cheng Lai, Chien-Tai Huang, Yin-Hsun Feng   +3 more
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The transmission of nosocomial pathogens in an intensive care unit: a space–time clustering and structural equation modelling approach [PDF]

, 2010
We investigated the incidence of cases of nosocomial pathogens and risk factors in an intensive treatment unit ward to determine if the number of cases is dependent on location of patients and the colonization/infection history of the ward.
Sheridan, E. A., Rushton, Steven, Lanyon, Clare, O'Donnell, Anthony, Shirley, Mark   +4 more
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Nosocomial hepatitis C virus infection in a renal transplantation center [PDF]

, 2002
Nosocomial hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections were recorded in the renal transplantation unit of the university hospital. There were cases of acute HCV infection with aggressive clinical courses diagnosed from a positive HCV RNA test in the early post ...
Erensoy, S, Saymer, AA, Saymer, AYÇA ARZU, Kaplan, H., Ozacar, T, Abacioğlu, H., Baßçi, A., Başçi, A, Abacioğlu, H, Sayiner, A A, Sayiner, A.A., Kaplan, H, Bilgiç, A, Özacar, T., Zeytinoğlu, A, Erensoy, S., Bilgiç, A., Zeytinoğlu, A., Simmonds, P., Simmonds, P   +19 more
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