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Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
remained the same. The reasons for the high prevalence of HAI s should be further investigated and targets should be set to improve. It is recommended that hospitals participate regulary in a PPS. Health ...
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey.
online in 6 languages from April, 1st to September 1st, 2012 and disseminated through international and national ICU societies. We investigated reported practices as regards (1) established clinical ...
Indications for antimicrobial prescribing in European nursing homes: results from a point prevalence survey.
subproject was set up to measure and describe antimicrobial use across Europe. The aim of this paper was to investigate the indications for antimicrobial use and hence identify targets for quality improvement. ...
Nation-wide prospective surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections in hospitals in Belgium, July 2007-June 2008.
and 1.9 per 10,000 hospital-days for all cases, and 0.9 per 1,000 admissions, and 1.1 per 10,000 hospital-days for hospital-associated cases. Further investigation of risk stratification by average ...
Muticentrische studie "Verband tussen antibioticaconsumptie en microbile resistentie bij de individuele patiënt"
from fully understood. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the average daily intake of antimicrobial agents and the occurrence of microbial drug resistant ...
Recovery of Moraxella ovis from the bovine respiratory tract and differentiation of Moraxella species by tDNA-intergenic spacer PCR.
delineation from other Moraxella species. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (in microg/mL) for 90% of the investigated isolates were < or =0.03 for ampicillin; 0.25 for ceftiofur; 0.5 for ...
Detection of tetracycline-resistant and susceptible pasteurellaceae in the nasopharynx of loose group-housed calves.
calves with no history of antimicrobial treatment prior to sampling. The presence of subpopulations of tetracycline-resistant Pasteurellaceae was also investigated. Nasal swabs from 61 loose group-housed, ...
Global phylogenomics of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky ST198.
an emerging problem within this serotype. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to investigate the phylogenetic structure and AMR content of 121 S.enterica serotype Kentucky sequence type 198 isolates ...
Transcriptional profiling of a laboratory and clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain suggests respiratory poisoning upon exposure to delamanid.
to a pressure of the recently approved delamanid is investigated. Total RNA sequencing revealed that the response to this bicyclic nitroimidazole shows many similarities with pretomanid, an ...