Research Article | 24-May-2019
Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance are two of the most important threats in the contemporary medicine, representing a serious burden for the public health system. Previously regarded only as an innocuous commensal microorganism of human skin, S. epidermidis is nowadays seen as an important opportunistic pathogen and the most frequent cause of nosocomial infections. S. epidermidis is the most genetically diverse species within the genus Staphylococcus. Strains
Beata Podgórska,
Danuta Kędzia
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 57 , ISSUE 4, 348–359
research-article | 30-November-2020
kontekście higieny rąk personelu medycznego; aby ocenić, czy procedury te są wykonywane prawidłowo oraz czy po zastosowaniu odpowiednich procedur ręce i paznokcie mają wpływ na rozprzestrzenianie się drobnoustrojów w środowisku szpitalnym. Literatury szukano głównie w bazie PubMed, ale też Google Scholar wpisując hasła: „hand hygiene”, „healthcare-associated infections”, „jewellery and artificial fingernails in a hospital environment” oraz „hand disinfection”. Starano się wybierać artykuły z ostatnich
Klaudia Szarek,
Monika Kabała,
Gajane Martirosian
Advancements of Microbiology – Postepy Mikrobiologii, Volume 60 , ISSUE 4, 309–315
Research Article | 24-May-2019
-associated infections. Staphylococcus epidermidis is mainly responsible for bloodstream infections and other biomedical device-related infections. Hospital strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis form protective biofilm and are characterized by their resistance to various antibiotics.
Beata Podgórska,
Danuta Kędzia
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 57 , ISSUE 4, 338–348
Research Article | 23-May-2019
Drug-resistant bacteria from the genus Enterococcus are currently among the most important pathogens behind healthcare-associated infections. The drug resistance of these bacteria has been on the increase since the 1980s, leeding to their multi-drug resistance. Selective pressure, present mainly in the hospital environment, contributed to this phenomenon. However, also outside the hospital environment selective pressure comes into play, namely the use of antibiotics as promoters of growth in
Katarzyna Talaga-Ćwiertnia,
Małgorzata Bulanda
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 57 , ISSUE 3, 244–250
Original Paper | 04-December-2017
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, an opportunistic pathogen usually connected with healthcare-associated infections, is an environmental bacterium. Intrinsic resistance to multiple antibiotics, with different virulence determinants in the last decade classified this bacterium in the group of global multiple drug resistant (MDR) organism. S. maltophilia clinical isolates, were collected from tertiary care pediatric hospital in Belgrade, Serbia to investigate influence of different factors on biofilm
Marjan Biočanin,
Haowa Madi,
Zorica Vasiljević,
Milan Kojić,
Branko Jovčić,
Jelena Lozo
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 66 , ISSUE 4, 433–438