Abstract Background The present study aims to investigate the relationship between patient safety culture and prevention of transmitting bloodborne pathogens among nurses at a general hospital. Methods participants were 284 working hospital located in city, data collected April 26 May 15, 2019. Questionnaires on used, SPSS version 22.0 was used for descriptive hierarchical regression analysis. ...

In a culture survey, we found that 42% of hospital privacy curtains were contaminated with vancomycin-resistant enterococci, 22% with ethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and 4% with Clostridium difficile. Hand imprint cultures demonstrated that these pathogens were easily acquired on hands. Hospital curtains are a potential source for dissemination of healthcare-associated pathogens.

hospital acquired infection have 2 origins: 1) infections acquired from the hospitalization. 2) infections that transmit from hospital personnel and those who referred to a hospital. according to the studies approximately half of hospital acquired infection is under the first group. gram-negative bacilli is of prime importance from all bacteries that caused hospital acquired infection. there ar...

The in vitro activity of tigecycline was evaluated against 819 baseline pathogens isolated from 383 patients enrolled in the phase 3 clinical trial investigating the efficacy of tigecycline in hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP). The trials were global, enrolling patients in 27 countries. Tigecycline was active against the most prevalent pathogens in HAP, including gram-positive and gram-negative...

background and objectives: bacterial bloodstream infections (bsis) and surgical site infections (ssis) are among the most common nosocomial infections with high mortality and morbidity. we aimed to evaluate the frequency of various species among bsis and ssis at tehran heart center, tehran, iran. methods: patients with localized or systemic infections that became evident 48 hours or more after ...