• Tropical doctor · Oct 2008

    Epidemiology of nosocomial infections in medicine intensive care unit at a tertiary care hospital in northern India.

    • Shabina Habibi, Naveet Wig, Sunil Agarwal, Surendra K Sharma, Rakesh Lodha, Ravindra M Pandey, and Arti Kapil.
    • Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India.
    • Trop Doct. 2008 Oct 1;38(4):233-5.

    AbstractThis prospective observational study describes the rates of nosocomial infections (NI), the sites of infection, the pathogens involved, their antibiogram and the risk factors at a tertiary care hospital in northern India. In 62 of the 182 enrolled patients 95 episodes of NI were recorded (incidence rate 28.6/1000 person days): pneumonia (77%); urinary tract infection (24%) and blood stream infection (24%). All isolates of Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and Klebsiella and 83.3% of Escherichia coli were resistant to the third generation cephalosporins. An increased duration of the time spent in intensive care units and days of intervention were associated with incident NI.

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