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M Lange

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Development of an infection surveillance project for home healthcare.

Individual home care agencies must begin to take responsibility for gathering and analyzing data on infections that occur in the home. This is the only way to determine whether the infections are related to home care services or to other factors in the patient's environment. The Infection Surveillance Project was born out of the need for reliable and useful information on infection rates in home care. The need to be able to identify this information within individual companies and the industry as a whole takes on greater importance with managed care and accrediting bodies.

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Comparison of bacterial flora found in the peritoneal cavity and drains after intraabdominal surgery.

The aim of this study was to evaluate bacterial flora infecting during the surgical procedures the peritoneal cavity and drains which were used after the surgery in 40 patients who underwent surgery for colon and rectum tumors. Smears from the peritoneal cavity, liquid removed from the drain taken at 3-4 days after the surgery and smears from the drain taken at the end of drainage of each patient were examined for bacterial content. The comparison of bacterial flora found in the peritoneal cavity with bacteria found in drains showed that the frequency of isolation of anaerobes decreased in contrast to aerobes which were more often cultured over the time of drainage (p < 0.05). Bacteroides spp, enterococci, and strains of Enterobacteriaceae were most often isolated from the peritoneal cavity, but over the time of drainage the frequency of isolation of coagulase-negative staphylococci including MRCNS increased as well as the number of patients infected with enterococci, whereas anaerobes and strains of Enterobacteriaceae were rarely isolated.

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