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Nosocomial infections

open access: yesVeterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2002
Nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are topics that have been intensely studied in human medicine because of their significant impact on human health. In recent years, concerns have been raised that the use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, and agriculture may be contributing to the development of resistance in ...
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Molecular characteristics of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli in pediatric patients in China

open access: yesBMC Microbiology, 2023
Background Carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli (CR-GNB) have been increasingly reported in China. However, dynamic monitoring data on molecular epidemiology of CR-GNB are limited in pediatric patients.
Lijun Yin   +7 more
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Characterization of Tigecycline-Heteroresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates From a Chinese Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Tigecycline has been used as one of the therapeutic choices for the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. However, the emergence of tigecycline heteroresistance has led to great challenges in treating these ...
Qiaoyu Zhang   +3 more
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Excess length of hospital stay due to healthcare acquired infections. Methodologies evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BACKGROUND: Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) cause an increase of burden and in particular excess length of hospital stay (LOS) accounts for approximately up to 90% of total costs.
Giraldi, G.   +4 more
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Nosocomial Infection Update [PDF]

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1998
Historically, staphylococci, pseudomonads, and Escherichia coli have been the nosocomial infection troika; nosocomial pneumonia, surgical wound infections, and vascular access-related bacteremia have caused the most illness and death in hospitalized patients; and intensive care units have been the epicenters of antibiotic resistance.
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Nosocomial transmission of COVID-19: a retrospective study of 66 hospital-acquired cases in a London teaching hospital

open access: yesClinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
COVID-19 can cause deadly healthcare-associated outbreaks. In a major London teaching hospital, 66/435 (15%) of COVID-19 inpatient cases between 2 March and 12 April 2020 were definitely or probably hospital-acquired, through varied transmission routes ...
H. Rickman   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A review of bacterial disease outbreaks in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reported from 2010 to 2022

open access: yesJournal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Outbreaks of bacterial infections in aquaculture have emerged as significant threats to the sustainable production of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) worldwide. Understanding the dynamics of these outbreaks and the bacteria involved is crucial for implementing effective management strategies. This comprehensive review presents an update on
Muhammed Duman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlling nosocomial infection based on structure of hospital social networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Nosocomial infection raises a serious public health problem, as implied by the existence of pathogens characteristic to healthcare and hospital-mediated outbreaks of influenza and SARS.
Masuda, Naoki, Ueno, Taro
core   +2 more sources

Nosocomial bloodstream infections in US hospitals: analysis of 24,179 cases from a prospective nationwide surveillance study.

open access: yesClinical Infectious Diseases, 2004
BACKGROUND Nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSIs) are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. METHODS Data from a nationwide, concurrent surveillance study (Surveillance and Control of Pathogens of Epidemiological Importance
H. Wisplinghoff   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis

open access: yesmedRxiv, 2020
Background: COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, has now spread to most countries and regions of the world. As patients potentially infected by SARS-CoV-2 need to visit hospitals, the incidence of nosocomial infection can be expected to ...
Qi Zhou   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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