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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 ...
John Mihran Davis, John Hong
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The Future of Nosocomial Infections [PDF]

Iran J Public Health
Nosocomial infections remain one of the most severe public health issues, infecting millions of patients worldwide each year.  The global prevalence of nosocomial infections varies between 3.0% and 20.7%, with an incidence rate ranging from 5% to 10%.
Moameri H, Salehi S, Haghdoost A.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Waterborne nosocomial infections [PDF]

Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2000
Waterborne pathogens cause infections in health-care facilities. Despite guidelines addressing these pathogens, outbreaks and pseudo-outbreaks continue to occur. We reviewed recent reports of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Chryseobacterium species, nontuberculous mycobacteria, and Legionella species ...
Victor L. Yu, Cheryl Squier, Janet E. Stout   +2 more
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Dysbiosis of a microbiota–immune metasystem in critical illness is associated with nosocomial infections

Nature Network Boston, 2023
Dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in critically ill patients, coupled with impaired innate immune responses, may lower the barrier to acquiring infectious pathogens in the hospital setting.
J. Schlechte, A. Zucoloto, Ian-ling Yu, C. Doig, M. Dunbar, K. McCoy, B. McDonald   +6 more
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Nosocomial Infections and Role of Nanotechnology

Bioengineering, 2022
Nosocomial infections, termed hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), are acquired from a healthcare or hospital setting. HAI is mainly caused by bacteria, such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Enterococci spp ...
Thripthi Ananda, Ankita Modi, I. Chakraborty, V. Managuli, C. Mukhopadhyay, N. Mazumder   +5 more
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Nosocomial infections [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 1997
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Nosocomial infections associated to COVID-19 in the intensive care unit: clinical characteristics and outcome

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2020
Bacterial and fungal co-infection has been reported in patients with COVID-19, but there is limited experience on these infections in critically ill patients.
T. Bardi, V. Pintado, M. Gómez-Rojo, R. Escudero-Sánchez, Amal Azzam Lopez, Yolanda Díez-Remesal, Nilda Martínez Castro, P. Ruiz-Garbajosa, D. Pestaña   +8 more
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Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis

medRxiv, 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, Yelei Gao, Xingmei Wang, R. Liu, Peipei Du, Xiaoqing Wang, Xianzhuo Zhang, S. Lu, Zijun Wang, Q. Shi, Weiguo Li, Yanfang Ma, Xufei Luo, T. Fukuoka, H. Ahn, Myeong Soo Lee, E. Liu, Yaolong Chen, Z. Luo, Kehu Yang   +19 more
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Nosocomial infections surveillance [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2006
Epidemioloski nadzor podrazumeva sistematsko prikupljanje, analizu i tumacenje podataka o određenoj bolesti, kao i povratnu informaciju onima koji ucestvuju u prikupljanju podataka ili njihovom koriscenju, a radi sprecavanja i suzbijanja poremecaja zdravlja .
Ljiljana Markovic-Denic, Vesna Šuljagić   +1 more
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Nosocomial Infections During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult Patients: A Comprehensive Narrative Review

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Objectives: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is increasingly used in critically ill patients with refractory cardiopulmonary failure.
G. MacLaren, L. Schlapbach, A. Aiken
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