<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Petignat C</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Blanc DS</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Francioli P</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1998</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Even with a good surveillance program, nosocomial infections may be not recognized because of several reasons: absence of symptoms or prolonged incubation period (eg, viral bloodborne infections, tuberculosis); problems with the microbiological diagnosis, because adequate specimens may be difficult to obtain or special methods should be used (eg, fungal infections, virus, new agents); shorter hospital stays (eg, surgical-site infections); difficulty in distinguishing between nosocomial and community-acquired infections (eg, influenza); and failure to detect clinically relevant colonization (eg, multiresistant microorganisms). Because of the important potential consequences of occult nosocomial infections, specific surveillance programs should be designed to address these problems.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://sonar.ch/global/documents/290136</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1086/647880</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/9758062</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Infection control and hospital epidemiology. - 1998</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Carrier State</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Contact Tracing</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Cross Infection</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Disease Reservoirs</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Environmental Monitoring</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Hospitals</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Humans</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Infection Control</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Length of Stay</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">Microbial Sensitivity Tests</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">Population Surveillance</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns12="xml" ns12:lang="en">Virus Latency</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns13="xml" ns13:lang="en">Occult nosocomial infections.</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>