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Medical Infection Articles & Analysis: This-Year
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Hospitals are, by definition, places of healing. Paradoxically, however, they can also be sources of infections contracted during a patient’s stay in hospital, known as nosocomial infections or healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). These infections represent a serious global public health problem, causing increased patient morbidity and mortality, prolonging hospital stays and driving up ...
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Not all hospital-acquired infections are transmitted by contact. A significant number of them—and often the most difficult to control—originate in the air we breathe. Pathogens responsible for diseases such as tuberculosis, legionellosis or fungal infections such as Aspergillus are spread via bioaerosols: tiny particles of biological origin that can remain suspended in the air for ...
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