Maria Luisa Moro

..A national prospective multicenter study was conducted with the aim of assessing the incidence of both in-hospital and postdisharge SSI, and the associated risk factors...

..An intervention study aimed at reducing the healthcare associated infections in 22 residential facilities in Emilia-Romagna region is described...

..Emilia Romagna region, Italy...

..The objective of the study was to assess the frequency of infections in a sample of Italian nursing homes...

..At present, the hospital discharge registry is not suited for surveillance of hospital-acquired infection...

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..This study provides basic parameters for modeling the transmission potential of outbreaks and planning control measures for Chikungunya infection in temperate settings...

..Despite the noteworthy improvement observed over time, the situation in Italy is still unsatisfactory, due to significant variation in the development of IC organisations and initiatives by region and by type of hospital...

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..Epidemiological data are useful for understanding the dynamics of the diffusion of this pathogen, and to plan control activities and monitor their efficacy...

..Vitek2 (card AST-N022) showed the worst performance; the other three methods (Vitek2 card AST-N026, Kirby-Bauer and E-test) performed comparably but never fulfilled the minimal standard proposed by FDA...

..To describe the use of systemic antibiotics in the paediatric population of the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) during the period 2000-2002...

..To quantify the occurrence of surgical-site infections (SSIs) in an Italian region and to estimate the proportion of potentially avoidable infections through benchmarking comparison...

..This study aims to evaluate the impact of resistance to fluoroquinolones on the short-term outcome of community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by Escherichia coli...

..To evaluate the accuracy of systemic antibiotic use statistics, based on the reimbursement data of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy), focusing on agents prescribed for urinary tract infections...

..This survey showed that having written protocols at local level does not necessarily mean they comply with available scientific evidence. Thus, the quality of local guidelines needs to be improved...

..In recent years, several governments and scientific institutions have launched initiatives aimed at improving the safety of surgery, a key component of which is the availability of surveillance data...

..Vitek2 appears to be an accurate tool to detect ESBL phenotypes of E. coli isolates; some concern remains about its performance with the other bacterial species, especially P. mirabilis...

..CONCLUSION: This national representative survey showed that the infrastructure for infection control is suboptimal when compared with the guidelines and surveys published in other countries...

..Prescription of fluoroquinolones during the previous 6 months was associated independently with the emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance; the strength of the association varied according to individual fluoroquinolone agents...

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..To quantify patient and health care delays in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Emilia-Romagna region, Italy, and to study the association between migration status and delay...

..Our data demonstrates that intensive efforts are necessary to understand barriers better to change and to identify solutions to adopt uniform, comprehensive policies for antimicrobial resistance in Italy...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate antibiotic prescription for children in Emilia Romagna, a Northern Italian region with 414 880 people aged 1-14 years...

..Recent prescription of a macrolide (especially azithromycin) is a predictor of erythromycin resistance, as well as a possible risk factor for resistance at a community level...

..This study points out the need of improving physicians' awareness of tuberculosis disease especially when they care for elderly people and foreign-born patients...

..Nosocomial sepsis is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs)...

..Erythromycin-resistant isolates (29%) belonged to several serogroups, more frequently to serogroups 14, 6, and 19. Both vaccines are potentially able to prevent the majority of resistant infections in the respective age groups in Italy...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of two polymorphisms of the human IL-18 gene promoter at positions -607 (C/A) and -137 (G/C) on both susceptibility to and progression of AD...

..To describe the epidemiology of infections in intensive care units (ICUs), whether present at admission or acquired during the stay...

..CONCLUSIONS: A nosocomial case of malaria was ascertained, which was likely due to patient-to-patient transmission via a contaminated blood glucose meter. Incomplete instructions for the meter seem to have played a role in this case...