Nosocomial outbreaks
Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates from Nosocomial Outbreaks in Los Angeles County, California
... Susceptibility testing. The MICs of the 17 antibiotics (including 16 with es- tablished breakpoints against Acinetobacter spp.) against 20 nonduplicate A. baumannii clinical isolates obtained from nosocomial ...
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Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR for comparison of Mycobacterium abscessus strains from nosocomial outbreaks
... Organisms. The isolates tested in this study were kindly provided by a number of individuals, including members of the Hospital Infections Program and the Mycobacterial Reference Section, Division of Bacterial and ...
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Analysis of Clostridium difficile Isolates from Nosocomial Outbreaks at Three Hospitals in Diverse Areas of Japan
... Particular virulence factors associated with this smz type strain have not been elucidated. Johnson et al. documented that all of the epidemic strain isolates from four hospitals in the United States were highly ...
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Molecular Epidemiological Investigation Using a Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Assay of Burkholderia cepacia Isolates from Nosocomial Outbreaks
... We experienced two Burkholderia cepacia outbreaks over a 1-year period. During this period, 28 B. cepacia isolates were obtained from clinical specimens, and 2 were obtained from environmental specimens (i.e., ...
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High Genetic Diversity among Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Isolates from Single Hospital: Nosocomial Outbreaks or Genotypic Profile Changes during Subcultures
... wound and urinary tract infections, particularly in immunosuppressed patients. The bacterial spread is mostly via cross-transmission by contaminated equipment or environmental sources making an outbreak with this ...
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Norovirus GII 4 Detection in Environmental Samples from Patient Rooms during Nosocomial Outbreaks
... recurring nosocomial outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis and can inflict potentially life-threatening infections in the immunocompromised, the el- derly, and newborns ...
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Comparative Evaluation of Three Different Genotyping Methods for Investigation of Nosocomial Outbreaks of Legionnaires' Disease in Hospitals
... This report describes for the first time the use of genotyping by means of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) (30) in comparison to the “gold standard” of MRA (24) and a protocol based on the widespread ...
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Extended Spectrum β Lactamase Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Causing Nosocomial Outbreaks of Infection in the United Kingdom
... Organisms, outbreaks, and ...hospital outbreaks in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1994 were investigated to determine the relationships between their extended-spec- trum b-lactamases and the plasmids ...
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Large restriction fragment patterns of genomic Mycobacterium fortuitum DNA as strain specific markers and their use in epidemiologic investigation of four nosocomial outbreaks
... fortluitum biovariant fortuitium were selected from three cardiac surgery wound infection outbreaks that occurred in Colorado 5 clinical and 1 environmental isolate 11, Texas 2 clinical [r] ...
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Health care workers causing large nosocomial outbreaks: a systematic review
... A total of 73 of the spreading HCWs were colonized only and 70 others were themselves infected by the patho- gen (as described in the outbreak reports) before spread to their patients took place (Table 1). If the index ...
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What are the main drivers for public policies to prevent healthcare associated infections?
... Nosocomial outbreaks are the most common focusing events as they have considerable potential to capture the attention of both the media and the public, thus attracting the attention of ...politicians. ...
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Lassa fever: another threat from West Africa
... during outbreaks, the main preventive strategies are to avoid contact with rodents, with ill persons and with local health services, if proper infection control practices are not well main- ...LF nosocomial ...
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Healthcare-associated fungal outbreaks: New and uncommon species, New molecular tools for investigation and prevention
... healthcare outbreaks of invasive infections, on four ...large nosocomial outbreaks due to uncommon fungal species such as Exserohilum rostratum and Sarocladium kiliense, were both linked to ...
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Evaluation of Performance of Four Genotypic Methods for Studying the Genetic Epidemiology of Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates
... four nosocomial outbreaks were typed by Afut1 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and three PCR-based molecular typing methods: random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, ...
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Lassa fever in and around Lafia, Central Nigeria
... of outbreaks and subsequent responses to contain it have not been well documented in these places, and it is difficult to learn from these experiences to improve the management of future outbreaks (Ajayi et ...
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Insufficient translation of knowledge among nurses towards management of nosocomial infections at Vihiga county Referral Hospital, Western Kenya
... The nosocomial infections are responsible for long hospital stays, morbidity, and mortality and are costly to ...towards nosocomial infections, their knowledge was lacking in certain areas, and their ...
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Computer Assisted Surveillance for Detecting Clonal Outbreaks of Nosocomial Infection
... detect nosocomial infections can be supplemented through the use of data generated in the clinical microbiology laboratory, even when relatively rudimentary computer tools based on threshold analysis are ...
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Low incidence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and nosocomial infection due to a preventive multimodal nosocomial infection control: a 10-year single centre prospective cohort study in neurocritical care
... The increasing colonisation of multidrug-resistant bac- teria ESBL and MRSA is a big problem among critically ill patients and this situation is getting worse. At present, many patients already have these bacteria on ...
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Epidemiological approach to nosocomial infection surveillance data: the Japanese Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System
... of nosocomial infec- tions in the ICU is higher than the ...of nosocomial infections in the ...of nosocomial infection surveillance data, which would allow infection control professionals to take ...
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Resource allocation: the main problem in infection control in intensive care units of hospitals
... with nosocomial infections has been reported to be 25,000-100,000 cases per year, and the treatment costs in this regard have been estimated at ...of nosocomial infections is almost three times higher among ...
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