hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in...
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distinguished from community-acquired pneumonia. It is usually caused by a bacterial infection, rather than a virus. Hospital acquired pneumonia is the second...
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Respiratory syncytial virus (redirect from RSV infection)
RSV can cause outbreaks both in the community and in hospital settings. Following initial infection via the eyes or nose, the virus infects the epithelial...
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infection can be life-threatening. Problematically, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a major cause of hospital-acquired infections...
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community-acquired bacteremia. Skin ulceration or wounds, respiratory tract infections, and IV drug use are the most important causes of community-acquired staph...
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (redirect from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus infections)
healthcare-associated infection. MRSA began as a hospital-acquired infection but has become community-acquired, as well as livestock-acquired. The terms HA-MRSA...
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NHS hospitals, such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and Clostridioides difficile infection. This...
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Staphylococcus aureus (category Healthcare-associated infections)
common causes of hospital-acquired infections and is often the cause of wound infections following surgery. Each year, around 500,000 hospital patients in...
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It is classified as a respiratory tract infection. Tracheobronchitis is often a hospital-acquired infection, particularly in an intensive care setting...
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healthcare-associated infection, at most 30% of infections are transmitted within hospitals. The majority of infections are acquired outside of hospitals, where medications...
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laboratory-acquired infection or LAI is an infection that is acquired in a laboratory, usually as part of a medical research facility or hospital. There are...
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Iatrogenesis (redirect from Iatrogenic infections)
procedures, techniques, information, methods, or equipment Negligence Hospital-acquired infections Iatrogenic conditions need not result from medical errors, such...
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they are the major cause of life-threatening nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections in immunocompromised and critically ill patients who are most...
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Serratia marcescens (redirect from Serratia infection)
in hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also called nosocomial infections, particularly catheter-associated bacteremia, urinary tract infections, and...
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It is likely to involve hospital-acquired infections, with higher risk of multidrug-resistant pathogens. People in a hospital often have other medical...
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immunocompromised. It rarely is community-acquired and mainly occurs as hospital-acquired infections. Infections caused by C. koseri can lead to various...
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Nosocomial infections are those that are acquired during a hospital stay. Lastly, a community-acquired infection is one in which the infection is acquired from...
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These symptoms are not often recognized as signs of HIV infection. Family doctors or hospitals can misdiagnose cases as one of the many common infectious...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (redirect from Cutaneous pseudomonas aeruginosa infection)
resistance mechanisms, and its association with serious illnesses – hospital-acquired infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and various sepsis syndromes...
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childbirth, people-to-people acquired infections that most commonly occur in hospital settings where immunocompromised patients acquire the yeast from healthcare...
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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) or Hospital-acquired infection as pathogens can be spread through contact or through the air to new patients and hospital staff...
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common cause of fungal sepsis is an infection by Candida species of yeast, a frequent hospital-acquired infection. The most common causes for parasitic...
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A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects a part of the urinary tract. Lower urinary tract infections may involve the bladder (cystitis)...
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bacteria that is known to cause gastrointestinal infection and is typically associated with the hospital setting. Legionella pneumophila is a bacterium...
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the act of infection investigation using the CDC definitions. Determining the presence of a hospital acquired infection requires an infection control practitioner...
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modern evidence-based KMC lowers infant mortality and the risk of hospital-acquired infection, increases weight gain of infants, increases rates of breastfeeding...
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hands of healthcare workers in hospital environments. C. difficile is currently a leading hospital-acquired infection in the UK, and rivals MRSA as the...
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applied in hospitals in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and England to stop the spread of hospital-acquired infections such as Clostridioides...
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infections are infections of the neonate (newborn) acquired during prenatal development or within the first four weeks of life. Neonatal infections may...
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