Infection control practice in countries with limited resources

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Review

Andreas Voss¹  Mehmet Doganay²  Emine Alp²  Hakan Leblebicioglu³ 

[1] Department of Clinical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey;Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey;

关键词: Infection control;    developing country;    limited resource;    multi-drug resistant pathogen;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-0711-10-36

 received in 2011-09-30, accepted in 2011-10-22,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Nosocomial infections and their control are a world-wide challenge. The prevalence of nosocomial infections is generally higher in developing countries with limited resources than industrialized countries. In this paper we aimed to further explain the differences with regard to infection control challenges between Turkey, a country with "limited" resources, and the Netherlands, a country with "reasonable" resources. Infrastructure of hospitals, low compliance of hand hygiene, understaffing, overcrowding, heavy workload, misuse of personal protective equipments, late establishment of infection control programme are major problems in limited-resources countries. These problems cause high infection rates and spread of multi-drug resistant pathogens. To improve the control and prevention of infections in countries with limited resources, a multi-facet approach is needed.

【 授权许可】

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© Alp et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011