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Worldwide survey of Corynebacterium striatum increasingly associated with human invasive infections, nosocomial outbreak, and antimicrobial multidrug-resistance, 1976–2020

Archives of Microbiology, 2021
Corynebacterium striatum is part of microbiota of skin and nasal mucosa of humans and has been increasingly reported as the etiologic agent of community-acquired and nosocomial diseases. Antimicrobial multidrug-resistant (MDR) C.
Giorgio Silva-Santana, Cecilia Silva, J. Olivella, Igor Ferreira Silva, Laís Menegoi Oliveira Fernandes, B. R. Sued-Karam, C. S. Santos, C. Souza, A. Mattos-Guaraldi   +8 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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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
wiley   +1 more source

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, Zhengxiu Luo, Kehu Yang   +19 more
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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nosocomial Infection in MICU: An Observational Study

APIK Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Nosocomial infections are infections; patients acquire while admitted to a health-care facility and generally develop 48 h or later after admission. These infections can lead to serious problems such as sepsis and even death.
Chennakesavulu Dara, Surendra Babu Darivemula, Triven Sagar Sandepogu, M. Saranya, N. Vijayalakshmi, S. Swetha   +5 more
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Occurrence of ESKAPE Bacteria Group in Dogs, and the Related Zoonotic Risk in Animal-Assisted Therapy, and in Animal-Assisted Activity in the Health Context [PDF]

, 2020
Animal-assisted interventions are widely implemented in different contexts worldwide. Particularly, animal-assisted therapies and animal-assisted activities are often implemented in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and other health facilities.
Fioretti, Alessandro, Menna, Lucia Francesca, Sansone, Mario, Santaniello, Antonio   +3 more
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The incidence and prevalence of hospital-acquired (carbapenem-resistant) Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2019
Due to therapeutic challenges, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) caused by Acinetobacter baumannii (HA-AB), particularly carbapenem-resistant strains (HA-CRAB) pose a serious health threat to patients worldwide.
Olaniyi Ayobami, Niklas Willrich, Thomas Harder, Iruka N. Okeke, Tim Eckmanns, Robby Markwart   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Factors for Nosocomial Infection in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by the Japanese Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (JANIS) [PDF]

, 2008
We evaluated the infection risks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using data of NICU infection surveillance data. The subjects were 871 NICU babies, consisting of 465 boys and 406 girls, who were cared for between June 2002 and January 2003 in ...
Babazono, Akira, Doi, Hiroyuki, Hayakawa, Masahiro, Ibara, Satoshi, Kitajima, Hiroyuki, Nakamura, Tomohiko, Nakayama, Hideki, Nishimaki, Shigeru, Sato, Kazuo, Shiga, Seigo, Tanaka, Tahei, Une, Hiroshi   +11 more
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Prolonged outbreak of clonal MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa on an intensive care unit: contaminated sinks and contamination of ultra-filtrate bags as possible route of transmission?

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2016
Background We report on an outbreak in a surgical, interdisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital. We detected a cluster of ICU patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Florian Salm, Maria Deja, Petra Gastmeier, Axel Kola, Sonja Hansen, Michael Behnke, Désirée Gruhl, Rasmus Leistner   +7 more
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