Occult nosocomial infections.
- Petignat C Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Division autonome de médecine préventive hospitalière, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Blanc DS
- Francioli P
- 1998-10-03
Published in:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology. - 1998
Carrier State
Contact Tracing
Cross Infection
Disease Reservoirs
Environmental Monitoring
Hospitals
Humans
Infection Control
Length of Stay
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Population Surveillance
Virus Latency
English
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.
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- DOI 10.1086/647880
- PMID 9758062
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/290136
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