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Labville Network: Establishment of a network of private medical testing laboratories to monitor bacterial resistance to antibiotics in urban areas. Public Health Monitoring Days, Paris, November 29–30, 2006
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Method for calculating a standardized incidence ratio (SIR) applied to the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units. Public Health Watch Conference, Paris, November 29–30, 2006
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Hospital-acquired infections
The prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is a requirement not only in public hospitals but also in private facilities. It concerns all healthcare providers, and numerous...
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Reporting of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, France, August 2001–June 2006. Regular surveillance reports - Infectious Diseases
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is a common cause of severe nosocomial infections (NIs). The emergence of new resistance phenotypes is making the treatment of these HIs increasingly...
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External reports of healthcare-associated infections, France, 2006. Regular surveillance reports - Infectious diseases
In 2001, health authorities made it mandatory to report certain rare or serious nosocomial infections in order to detect them early and facilitate their investigation and control. In...
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Glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE): epidemiological situation, current control measures, and future challenges.
Enterococci (Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium) are commensal bacteria of the gastrointestinal flora responsible for rare and generally mild hospital-acquired infections. Their...
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Antibiotic use in France.
This article reviews the main data sources that can help estimate and monitor antibiotic use and describes the key trends in France.
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Multidrug-resistant bacteria in French hospitals: initial indicators from the Network for the Alert, Investigation, and Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (RAISIN).
Bacteria are said to be multidrug-resistant (MDR) when, due to the accumulation of acquired resistance to several classes of antibiotics, they are sensitive to only a small number of...
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Carriage of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci in French healthcare facilities in 2006: a collaborative national survey by the ONERBA-CNR-InVS networks.
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Recommendations of the Antibiogram Committee, French Society of Microbiology, November 18, 2005
