background and objectives: the aim of the study was to determine the role and characteristics of nosocomial and community acquired staphylococcus sepsis in admitted children in tertiary centers in iran. patients and methods: a cross sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed since march 2008 to march 2009 in which all blood cultures from various admitted patients were checked for staphy...

Nosocomial or hospital acquired infections are a major challenge for low and middle income countries (LMICs) which have limited healthcare resources. Risk factors include the lack of appropriate hospital facilities such as isolation units, bed space, and sinks; inadequate waste management, contaminated equipment, inappropriate use of antibiotics and transmission of infection from the hands of h...

It has been shown that nosocomial infections or hospital acquired infections are recurrent problems, identified chiefly in intensive care facilities, surgical, and medical wards. In Trinidad and Tobago information on nosocomial infections are lacking. Within the period 1992-1995, 7,158 nosocomial infections were documented from 72,532 patients (10.0/100 admissions). In Europe, incidences vary f...

background and objective: community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus ( ca-mrsa) is increasingly reported worldwide. we aimed to determine the frequency of invasive ca-mrsa in children admitted to the pediatric wards of imam reza and ghaem hospitals of mashhad, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, data regarding s. aureus isolates from pediatric patients’...

W orldwide, sepsis is the cause of death in about 1400 people each day. Many of these people develop sepsis from infections acquired as patients while in a hospital. Infections acquired in the hospital are called nosocomial infections. They are the most common complications of hospitalized patients, with 5–10% of patients in acute care hospitals acquiring at least one infection. Nosocomial infe...

published by admin on Fri, 03/14/2014 8:58am Title Infections present on admission compared with hospital-acquired infections in acute ischemic stroke patients. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2013 Authors Boehme, AK, Kumar, AD, Dorsey, AM, Siegler, JE, Aswani, MS, Lyerly, MJ, Monlezun, DJ, George, AJ, Albright, KC, Beasley, TM, Martin-Schild, S Journal J Stroke Cerebrovasc...

Nosocomial infections, also called health-care-associated or hospital-acquired are a subset of infectious diseases acquired in health-care facility. Historically, Staphylococci, Pseudomonas, and Escherichia coli have been the common known as nosocomial infection bacteria. Moreover, pneumonia, surgical wound vascular access-related bacteremia caused most illness death hospitalized patients; inte...