Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review

• Main Authors: Sepideh Bagheri Nejad (Author), Benedetta Allegranzi (Author), Shamsuzzoha B Syed (Author), Benjamin Ellis (Author), Didier Pittet (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection (HAI) in Africa. METHODS: Three databases (PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the WHO regional medical database for Africa) were searched to identify studies published from 1995 to 2009 on the epidemiology of HAI in Afr...