Nosocomial Infections Rising in the Urology Ward of Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Brasov

Authors

  • I. Scarneciu Clinic of Urology, Emergency County Hospital, Brasov, Romania; Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  • A. Constantina Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  • C.C. Scarneciu Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  • L. Maxim Clinic of Urology, Emergency County Hospital, Brasov, Romania

Keywords:

Infection, Clostridium difficile, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, aetiology, pseudomembranous colitis

Abstract

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections and is an immediate threat to public health that requires urgent and aggressive measures. This clinico-epidemiological study was conducted between 1 Ianuary 2014 - 31 December 2015 and included 37 patients who developed acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) during hospitalization and were diagnosed with enterocolitis caused by CDI. The concern regarding the proliferation of CDI hospital acquired infections impose a set of sustained therapeutic and administrative measures in terms of transferring patients on special wards or isolating them on the wards they were diagnosed.

Author Biographies

I. Scarneciu, Clinic of Urology, Emergency County Hospital, Brasov, Romania; Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Faculty of Medicine

A. Constantina, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Faculty of Medicine

C.C. Scarneciu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Faculty of Medicine

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Published

2016-07-30

Issue

Vol. 9(58) No. 1 (2016)

Section

MEDICAL SCIENCES