BACKGROUND Nosocomial infection is defined as an infection which develops 48 hours after hospital admission or within 48 hours after being discharged. The objectives were to assess the frequency of nosocomial infection in patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine the etiological factors in such patients. It was an Observational Study and conducted in Intensive Care Unit, L...

Nosocomial viral infections have not been well studied. In this context, the aim of this work is to review epidemiological and therapeutic data published on the main viral agents that can produce nosocomial respiratory infection. The study thus aims to expand knowledge of behaviour of these agents in nosocomial infections and provide information to improve the implementation of preventive measu...

OBJECTIVE To study the possibility of lower the nosocomial infection rate among the premature infants by prophylactic use of antibiotics. METHODS Retrospectively collect 409 premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of First Hospital of Jilin University between 1st January in 2009 and 31th December in 2011, who meet inclusion criteria. There were prohylactic group ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a blood-borne infection and its prevalence used to be elevated in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Its main mode of contamination relies on nosocomial transmission. HCV infection is frequently associated in HD patients with normal liver enzymes whereas liver histology can display some degree of HCV-related lesions. The assessment of HCV-related lesions, even in H...

In the midst of increasing outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) in recent years, the increase of TB infection within medical facilities has also been concerned. Among recent reported cases of TB outbreaks, 20% are related to medical facilities. One recent observation indicates that the TB case rate of female nurse is almost twice as high as that of the average female population. The main cause for th...