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The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Nosocomial Infection Rate: A Case of Iran
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2021 Background. Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a new type of coronavirus that has caused a global pandemic. The disease is highly contagious, and all people are susceptible to the disease.
Maryam Jabarpour +6 more
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2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) nosocomial outbreak in South Korea: insights from modeling [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. Since the emergence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012, more than 1,300 laboratory confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infections have been reported in Asia, North Africa, and Europe by July 2015.
Ying-Hen Hsieh
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Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals [PDF]
, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Outbreaks of communicable diseases in hospitals need to be quickly detected in order to enable immediate control. The increasing digitalization of hospital data processing offers potential solutions for automated outbreak detection systems
Aghdassi, Seven Johannes Sam +9 more
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First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging multidrug resistant fungal pathogen causing nosocomial transmission. We report an ongoing outbreak of C. auris in a London cardio-thoracic center between April 2015 and July 2016.
Abdolrasouli, A +11 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2022 Background Factors contributing to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 outside the acute care hospital setting have been described in detail. However, data concerning risk factors for nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infections in hospitalized patients remain scarce. To close
Seven Johannes Sam Aghdassi +15 more
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Overlapping of Independent SARS-CoV-2 Nosocomial Transmissions in a Complex Outbreak
mSphere, 2021 We report a complex epidemiological scenario of a nosocomial COVID-19 outbreak in the second wave, based on WGS analysis. Initially, standard epidemiological findings led to the assumption of a homogeneous outbreak caused by a single SARS-CoV-2 strain.
Laura Pérez-Lago +20 more
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Infection Prevention in Practice, 2023 Summary: Background: Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) represent a challenge to healthcare systems. In July 2018, a CPE hospital ward outbreak was declared.
Lisa Domegan +6 more
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Four outbreaks of nosocomial systemic candidiasis [PDF]
Epidemiology and Infection, 1987 SUMMARYCandida albicans has recently been described as a cause of nosocomial infection. This paper reports four further outbreaks occurring over a 12-month period in England. There were 13 systemic cases and 6 deaths. The outbreaks were defined by morphotyping andthe new technique of immunoblot fingerprinting.
J P, Burnie +8 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020 Objective Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was officially declared a pandemic in March 2020. Many cases of COVID-19 are nosocomial, but to the best of our knowledge, no nosocomial outbreaks on psychiatric departments of severe acute respiratory syndrome ...
J. J. E. Rovers +7 more
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Outbreaks of Fungal Infections in Hospitals: Epidemiology, Detection, and Management
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Nosocomial clusters of fungal infections, whilst uncommon, cannot be predicted and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Here, we review reports of nosocomial outbreaks of invasive fungal disease to glean insight into their ...
Abby P. Douglas +3 more
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