surveillance cultures
Re exploring the value of surveillance cultures in predicting pathogens of late onset neonatal sepsis in a tertiary care hospital in southern Sri Lanka
... of surveillance cultures in predicting pathogens of LOS, only the episodes of infections developed follow- ing 48 h of admission to the NICU, were ...secretion cultures; pharyn- geal aspirates (PA) ...
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Development of antibiotic treatment algorithms based on local ecology and respiratory surveillance cultures to restrict the use of broad spectrum antimicrobial drugs in the treatment of hospital acquired pneumonia in the intensive care unit: a retrospective analysis
... Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts both made to im- prove appropriateness of antibiotic prescription and to reduce antibiotic selection pressure by limiting unneces- sary use of antibiotics, especially those with a ...
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Are tracheal surveillance cultures useful in the intensive care unit?
... (ETA) surveillance cultures have been used to predict the microorganisms responsible for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients for 3 ...ETA cultures after the 48 ...
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Significance of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism in Identification and Epidemiological Examination of Candida Species Colonization in Children Undergoing Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation
... routine surveillance cultures for the identification and epidemiological examination of Candida ...of surveillance cultures allowed more accurate and informative epidemiological evaluations of ...
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Safety and efficacy of amphotericin B deoxycholate inhalation in critically ill patients with respiratory Candida spp colonization: a retrospective analysis
... SDD, cultures are taken (inventory cultures) from throat, tracheal aspi- rates, urine, rectum and drains or ...SDD, surveillance cultures (from throat, tra- cheal aspirates, urine, and rectum) ...
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Epidemiology and Control of an Outbreak of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci in the Intensive Care Units
... 2006, surveillance cultures detected VRE in 4 sam- ples of 12 patients’ rectal swabs, 2 of 25 environmental surfaces and 2 of 25 health care workers’ (HCWs) hands; the immediate response was contact ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of BBL CHROMagar MRSA Medium for Direct Detection of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Surveillance Cultures of the Anterior Nares
... Active surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the strategies recom- mended by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America for control of nosocomial MRSA ...from ...
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Epidemiology of Candida kefyr in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies
... C. kefyr remains a rare cause of disease. The PATH Alliance Registry, which reported infections in 23 major academic institu- tions in North America between 2003 and 2008, found C. kefyr as a cause of invasive ...
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Surveillance Cultures and Duration of Carriage of Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
... appropriate surveillance sampling sites and the duration of carriage of MDR ...screening cultures were positive in 5 (17%), with a mean duration of ...screening cultures from the skin and pharynx but ...
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Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection or Colonization Present at Hospital Admission: Multivariable Risk Factor Screening To Increase Efficiency of Surveillance Culturing
... efficient surveillance methods remain to be ...nares surveillance cultures of all patients upon admission to and discharge from the general internal medicine floor in our community hospital over a ...
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Application of WHO’s guideline for the selection of sentinel sites for hospital based influenza surveillance in Indonesia
... their surveillance performance history enabled prioritization of good sites in subsequent steps of the selection ...MOH surveillance system ...poor surveillance performance ...
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Optical Properties of In1 xGaxN Epilayers Grown by HPCVD
... In some cases, many questions are administered only to specific population subgroups, which mean that most people receive just one part of the questionnaire. Telephones numbers for each selected person are obtained from ...
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Counter Cultures
... Last image: another favorite cartoon of mine out of an anarchist zine. It says something like, “We are not for the overthrowing of the system. We are for organizing and fighting to take back our lives away from the ...
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Enhanced Public Health Surveillance for the Sixth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival Conducted by the Okinawa Prefectural Government, Japan
... enhanced surveillance as useful to confirm events that might de- mand a public health ...sensitive surveillance for such days, with better preparations for ambulance transfer and at emer- gency departments ...
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Is the tide turning again for cephalosporin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe? Results from the 2013 European surveillance
... The 2013 Euro-GASP data show that the encouraging recent trends of decreasing cefixime, ceftriaxone, cipro- floxacin and azithromycin resistance in N. gonorrhoeae across the EU/EEA region have not been maintained, ...
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Significance of bile culture surveillance for postoperative management of pancreatoduodenectomy
... Preoperative and intraoperative bile culture was per- formed in 12 (17%) and 46 patients (67%), respectively. Both pre- and intra-operative bile culture were done in 7 patients; thus, surveillance bile culture was ...
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ANTICANCER POTENTIAL OF SOLANUM JASMINOIDES
... Cell Lines and Culture Medium: Vero (normal fibroblast-like African green monkey cell), BRL-3 (normal fibroblast-like rat liver cell) and HEp- 2(human laryngeal epithelial carcinoma) cell cultures were procured ...
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Just Surveillance? Towards a Normative Theory of Surveillance
... that surveillance is not inherently unethical she looks at a series of scenarios, starting with the smallest scale (self-interest and parental monitoring) and ending at the largest (state ...the ...
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Overall Low Extended Spectrum Cephalosporin Resistance but high Azithromycin Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in 24 European Countries, 2015
... Despite positive results for the extended-spectrum cephalosporins, the high rates of azithromycin resist- ance documented by Euro-GASP threaten the effect- iveness of the recommended dual antimicrobial therapy, and ...
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Cultures of optimism
... In contrast, from a perspective of evolutionary psychology, Lionel Tiger has no difficulty is seeing optimism as an isolatable element of human behaviour (1995, 17). He argues that ‘a neurophysiology for a sense of ...
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