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Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections, estimated incidence and composite antimicrobial resistance index in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities: results from two European point prevalence surveys, 2016 to 2017
and 117,138 residents from 2,221 long-term care facilities (LTCF) in 23 countries. After national validation, we estimated that 6.5% (cumulative 95% confidence interval (cCI): 5.4–7.8%) patients in ACH ...
Epidémiologie des infections à Clostridium difficile en Belgique- Rapport 2017
(et reste la plus élevée) en Wallonie, et a diminué (et reste la plus faible) en Flandre. Cependant une validation à partir des données des séjours hospitaliers suggère que l’incidence réelle dans les ...
Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Escherichia coli by using normalized resistance interpretation.
not susceptible. CONCLUSIONS: NRI was shown to be a valid method to define the WT population for disk diffusion outcomes, provided a normal distribution of the susceptible bacterial species population is present. ...
Validation of a Sampling Method to Collect Exposure Data for Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Hammami, Naïma; Karl Mertens; Overholser, Rosanna; Goetghebeur, Els; Boudewijn Catry; Marie-Laurence Lambert Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, Volume 37, Issue 5, Number 554, p.549-54 (2016) ...
Clinical diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in low-income countries: the current evidence.
negative sputum smears. Several algorithms and clinical scoring systems based on local epidemiology have been developed to predict smear-negative tuberculosis. Few of these have been validated within the ...