Infection due to C. difficile ribotype 078: first report of cases in the Republic of Ireland

Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak defined by rapid screening in a neonatal intensive care unit

Direct costs associated with a hospital-acquired outbreak of rotaviral gastroenteritis infection in a long term care institution

Infection control practices among hospital health and support workers in Hong Kong

Colonisation of fluoroquinolone-resistant Haemophilus influenzae among nursing home residents in southern Taiwan

Current risk of iatrogenic Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in the UK: efficacy of available cleaning chemistries and reusability of neurosurgical instruments

New technique to take samples from environmental surfaces using flocked nylon swabs

Newspaper reporting of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and ‘the dirty hospital’

Sphingomonas paucimobilis: a persistent Gram-negative nosocomial infectious organism

M.P. Ryan*, C.C. Adley
*University of Limerick, Ireland

Journal of Hospital Infection (2010) 75, 153-157
 

Hospital-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infections: linking national surveillance data to clinical and financial hospital data to estimate increased length of stay and healthcare costs