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National Surveillance of Infections acquired in Intensive Care Units: Annual Report 2015
and process parameters for the prevention of infection. Health Topics: Résistance aux antimicrobiens (AMR) Antimicrobiële resistentie (AMR) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Service: Infections liées aux ...
Case report of a false positive result of the Xpert(®) MTB/RIF assay for rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Abstract: In the present case, we report a false positive result for the detection of rifampicin (RIF) resistance by the Xpert(®) MTB / RIF assay, version G4.Miliary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection ...
OXA-48 Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Household Contact of a Previously Infected Patient: Person-to-Person Transmission or Coincidental Community Acquisition?
blaOXA-48 in a similar IncL/M plasmid. This case report shows that community spreading of carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae occurs in the low endemic area not only in nosocomial setting but also in ...
Surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections in a long-term care psychogeriatric facility: outbreak analysis and policy improvement.
identify determinants (retrospectively) and to assess intervention measures taken (prospectively). METHODS: For every CDI patient (de novo cases, relapses, and recurrences), a control patient (patient in the ...
Surveillance of bloodstream infections in Belgian hospitals ('SEP')-Annual report 2014, Surveillance data 2000-2014
resistance markers. The most common microorganisms in 2014 (HA- BSI) were E. coli (21%), coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (15%) and Staphylococcus aureus (11%). Half of hospitals reported no cases of HA- BSI ...
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2014
are some indications that incidence of CDI is again rising in Europe, as it is in Belgium. Health Topics: Résistance aux antimicrobiens (AMR) Antimicrobiële resistentie (AMR) Antimicrobial resistance ...
Preventable proportion of severe infections acquired in intensive care units: case-mix adjusted estimations from patient-based surveillance data.
s can be eliminated with improved quality of care, apart from variation attributable to differential case mix. Health Topics: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Category: A1 FOS Classification: 3.03 Health ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
are calculated for each unit. A SIR of 1 means that the infection rate is in accordance to the expected rate for the case-mix of the unit. The analysis was supported by WIV- ISP (K. Mertens) and BICS ...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) pilot point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use.
patient-based protocol required more work than the unit-based protocol, but allowed collecting detailed data and analysis of risk factors for HAI and antimicrobial use. Health Topics: Antimicrobial resistance ...
National influences on catheter-associated bloodstream infection rates: practices among national surveillance networks participating in the European HELICS project.
1383444 patient days, 969897 CVC days and 1935 CVC- BSI cases in the analysis. Adjusted logistic regression analysis showed that the categorical variables of country [odds ratio (OR) varying per country ...