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Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are still a major problem especially in most intensive care units (ICU). Incompliance by clinical staff with hand hygiene (HH) increases rates of preventable infections. We report ...

intensive care units Preventive practices Surveillance Abstract: BACKGROUND: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are a cause of increased morbidity and mortality, and are largely ...

available. Monitoring drug resistance is essential for early detection and subsequent prevention of the spread of drug resistance by timely changes of treatment policy. This review was performed to gather all ...

111,000 (95% confidence interval 73,556-159,292) infected patients in this setting [2]. Hand hygiene (HH) compliance has been recognised as the most important factor in preventing transmission of infection ...

of deaths attributed to CDI There is a large variation in the incidence of CDI between hospitals, which may indicate an important potential for prevention There is a large diversity of ribotypes ...

detection is crucial in order to prevent infections and the development of reservoirs/outbreaks in hospitals. In 2008, most of the CPE strains reported in Belgium were imported from patients repatriated from ...

variable from one hospital to another, indicating an important potential for prevention. Ribotyping of 585 CDI strains from 103 different hospitals in 2013 identified 133 different ribotypes, 72 of them ...