Health-care-associated infection in Africa: A systematic review;Infections liées aux soins de santé en afrique: Une étude systématique

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 757-765

  Nejad, Sepideh Bagheri ^a   Allegranzi, Benedetta ^a   Syed, Shamsuzzoha B ^a   Ellisc, Benjamin ^a   Pittetd, Didier ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LITERATURE REVIEW;

BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PEER REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

AFRICA;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 80053480463     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.088179     Document Type: Review

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