conclusions the hai prevalence found in this study was lower than hai rates reported in some other studies from iran. the isolates showed high resistance to common antibiotics. guidelines for improving hai surveillance and stringent measures to reduce the prevalence of multidrug-resistant hais must be implemented to reduce the rate and the consequences of hais. results a total of 16,140 patient...

 Abstract Background: The antibiotic resistance of nosocomial organisms is rapidly increasing. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of bacterial agents isolated from patients with nosocomial infection. Methods: This study was performed in the different wards of teaching hospitals of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (northern Iran). The study population consists ...

Background: The rate of nosocomial infection appears to depend on whether it is calculated using the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or carrier state criteria. The objective of this study was to differentiate between primary endogenous (PE), secondary endogenous (SE) and exogenous (EX) infections, and to compare this classification with CDC criteria for nosocomial infections. Methods: ...

background bloodstream infection (bsi) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and among the most common health-care associated infections. in this study we described the frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of nosocomial and community-acquired bsi isolates from a teaching hospital in tehran, iran. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conduct...

Background Infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. Infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. The mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospit...

Surveillance of nosocomial infection is the foundation of infection control. Nosocomial infection surveillance data ought to be summarized, reported, and fed back to health care personnel for corrective action. Using the Japanese Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (JANIS) data, we determined the incidence of nosocomial infections in intensive care units (ICUs) of Japanese hospitals and assessed ...

AIMS To identify the extent of nosocomial adenovirus keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) and assess the effect of a new infection-control policy. METHODS Nosocomial AKC was defined as AKC in patients attending the hospital within 3 weeks of a previous visit for an unrelated non-infective condition. An audit of culture-proven nosocomial AKC was carried out from October 1998 to September 1999 to establi...

abstract [1]   background and objective:hospital infection is undoubtedly the most important world's problem which is considered by health care centers. lack of proper understanding of staff of infection controling ways and procedures play a decisive role in the increased transmission of infectious agents in hospital infections. if nurses know the proper effective ways they would help to r...