As infecções relacionadas à assistência à saúde (IRAS) são eventos adversos preocupantes em saúde pública, que se configuram como importante causa de morbidade e mortalidade em unidades de terapia intensiva. Dispositivos invasivos como o cateter venoso central (CVC) favorecem um tipo de IRAS, a ...
Abstract Introduction The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has changed in the last two decades. There is a lack of information regarding incidence and severity of CDI, especially in the developing world. Methods This was a retrospective and observational study from four hospitals o...
Introduction: The hospital water supply is a reservoir of a variety of potentially pathogenic microorganisms that can particularly affect children and immunocompromised patients. Potentially pathogenic Microsporidium spp. have been identified in water. Microsporidiosis is an emerging parasitic and opport...
We describe a nosocomial outbreak of Serratia marcescens infections in different departaments, which occurred between May and December 2001. It involved 85 patients, 72 with clinical infections and 13 in which the strains isolated were found as colonization. The most common site was urinary tract infecti...
In order to understand the role of trovafloxacin in the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia, the nature and characteristics of this infection have to be first reviewed. During the first part of this revision the principal aspects of the epidemiology are reviewed, some concepts which take part in the pathog...
Objetivo. Analisar o perfil de processos infecciosos em diabéticos internados em um hospital geral. Material e Métodos. Foram selecionados, retrospectivamente, 233 prontuários de diabéticos no período de setembro a novembro de 1990. Num total de 38 (16,3 por cento) pacientes com infecçäo, 76,3 por...
