Introduction. The incidence of healthcare-associated infections is a major public health problem worldwide, affecting all countries regardless their economic status. main agents these are pathogens belonging to the ESKAPE group.
 aim study was explore structure, molecular and antigenic characteristics isolated from oral anal mucosa patients neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), assess etiol...

OBJECTIVES The study presents data concerning occupational exposures among the staff of 5 hospitals in the Małopolska province in 2008-2012, taking into account the frequency and circumstances of exposure formation, occupational groups of hospital workers, as well as diversification of the reported rates in subsequent years between the hospitals and in each of them. An additional objective of t...

Adenylate kinase (AK) is a ubiquitous intracellular enzyme that is released into the extracellular space upon cell lysis. We have shown that AK release serves as a useful reporter of bactericidal agent activity and can be exploited for antimicrobial screening purposes. The AK assay exhibits improved sensitivity over that of growth-based assays and can detect agents that are active against bacte...

US policy regarding health care worker-to-patient transmission of bloodborne pathogens, issued in 1991, is flawed. We review current evidence of such nosocomial infections and conclude that a standardized national policy is needed, which includes improved surveillance and follow-up of blood exposures to patients and targeted practice restrictions for infected practitioners performing exposure-p...