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Improving threat detection and quality surveillance: tools for infection management

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Chief Investigator: Dr David Wyllie · Sponsor: OUH · Research location: OUH NHS Trust · Approval date: 04 Mar 2010

Summary of findings: We found that increases in severity of C. difficile diarrhoea, likely to due to the arrival of the hypervirulent 027 strain in the UK, could have been detected three years early using routine monitoring of neutrophil counts at diagnosis, compared with looking at patient ... READ MORE

Nosocomial MRSA endemicity: addition or replacement (multi-centre, multi-cohort study)

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Chief Investigator: Prof Marc Bonten · Sponsor: Utrecht University · Research location: University Med Centre Utrecht · Approval date: 04 Mar 2010

Summary of findings: Trends in the rates of serious bloodstream infections caused by antibiotic-sensitive microbes were similar between 1998-2007 across 14 hospitals in Europe, but rates of serious bloodstream infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes increased much more in hospitals in ... READ MORE

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