OBJECTIVE To assess factors associated with multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) nosocomial infection. MATERIAL AND METHOD This hospital-based case-control study was conducted in patients admitted to Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005. The study population consisted of 155 cases with MDR-AB nosocomial infection and 310 controls w...

The elderly population will grow rapidly over the next 25 years, however there is little information about hospital infections in this group of patients in Brazil. We examined the prevalence of nosocomial and community infections in elderly ((3) 65 years) patients and their relationship with intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors in a Brazilian University Hospital. A total of 155 hospitalized eld...

The adaptation of strict hygienic practices by healthcare personnel as well as the implementation of appropriate cleaning and disinfection measures form the basis of infection control policies. However, nosocomial infections constitute a considerable problem even in hospitals with meticulous infection control programmes. This should prompt biomedical researchers to evaluate the efficacy and saf...

background and objectives: nicu acquired infections are associated with increased mortality rates, prolonged duration of hospitalization in survivors and increased cost of neonatal health care. the frequency of these infections has increased in recent decades as a result of   increased survival of low birth weight infants. in this study,  incidence of nosocomial blood stream infection and risk ...

Nosocomial infection is a major problem in hospitals worldwide. Understanding patterns of bacterial etiology and antibiotic susceptibility are important factors to combating nosocomial infection. Among children with nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI), we identified pathogens and determined antibiotics resistance patterns and mortality rates for antibiotic-susceptible and multidrugresistant ...

The prevalence of nosocomial infections in critical care units is high. Nosocomial infections are of serious hospital problems. In addition, they are impose heavy costs on hospitals, causing increased hospitalization time, increased morbidity and mortality. In this study, we aimed to determine the epidemiological status of nosocomial infections in hospital ICU Imam Reza, Urmia, Iran. This study...

Statistical methods to analyze and predict the related risk factors of nosocomial infection in lung cancer patients are various, but the results are inconsistent. A total of 609 patients with lung cancer were enrolled to allow factor comparison using Student's t-test or the Mann-Whitney test or the Chi-square test. Variables that were significantly related to the presence of nosocomial infectio...

BACKGROUND The relation between older age and nosocomial infection and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) is still a controversial issue. METHODS The authors prospectively studied 406 patients admitted to a surgical ICU, 106 of whom were more than 75 yr old. Information concerning ICU-acquired nosocomial infections, severity of illness, therapeutic activity, and hospital outcome was c...

Introduction: Nosocomial Infections (NI) are frequent and relevant problem and it is responsible for mortality especially in pediatric ICU and NICUs. Healthcare- associated infections are of important wide-ranging concern in the medical field. In the neonatal intensive care unit population the Nosocomial infection rate is highest in the lowest-birth-weight infants. It is this group of infants w...

Background & Aims of the Study: About a third of mortality in hospitals devoted to nosocomial infections. Nosocomial infection is an infection after the exposure of health- treatment services in unit's treatment. Lack of knowledge or ignorance of personnel to transmission methods and prevention of nosocomial infections are caused transmission of infectious diseases to staffs an...