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...
A total of 126 coagulase-negative staphylococci strains (CNS) were isolated from blood samples and from the intravenous catheters and cerebrospinal fluid of 103 patients admitted to the University Hospital of Ribeirão Preto. Staphylococcus epidermidis (68.2 percent), S. haemolyticus (11.1 percent) and S...
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...
Analiza las caracteristicas de los pacientes que estando hospitalizados en el servicio quirurgico del Hospital San Ignacio presentaron infeccion urinaria, entre junio de 1985 y junio de 1986; con base en la informacion de la historia clinica. Durante este periodo la incidencia de infeccion urinaria tuvo ...
Se estudiaron 41 pacientes a quienes se colocaron cateteres venosos perifericos entre Septiembre y Diciembre de 1987 en el servicio de medicina interna del Hospital San Ignacio, 8 de los cuales presentaro flebitis quimica o bacteriana. La incidencia del fenomeno fue igual para los pacientes que tenian en...
