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Nosocomial infections and microbiological agents in an intensive care unit

Author(s) -

Gorana Ćosić,

Jelena Djekić,

Smiljana Rajčević,

Mioljub Ristić,

Nada Ikonić

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

archives of biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 1821-4339

pISSN - 0354-4664

DOI - 10.2298/abs1204357c

Subject(s) - intensive care unit , intensive care medicine , medicine , infection control , epidemiology , health care , intensive care , cross infection , medical emergency , economics , economic growth

Hospital environments provide a special setting for the interaction of microbiological agents of infection and a host of patients and healthcare workers. Although the basic tenets about the spread of infections in hospital have not changed, new issues have emerged that make infection control more problematic. The aim of this paper was to provide the epidemiological characteristics of nosocomial infections and pathogens among patients in an intensive care unit (ICU), the department with the highest risk of the infections associated with medical devices and healthcare

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