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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control: Abstracts from the 2nd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2013)

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O026: Countrywide prevalence study of healthcare-associated infections in brazilian hospitals: preliminary results

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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control20132 (Suppl 1) :O26

https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-S1-O26

©  Fortaleza et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013

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Keywords

  • Infection Rate
  • Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
  • Surgical Site Infection
  • Central Venous Catheter
  • Bloodstream Infection

Introduction

The knowledge of burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) in hospitals is essential to drive governmental strategies for its prevention and control.

Objectives

To identify the prevalence of HAI in a representative sample of Brazilian hospitals.

Methods

A team of trained nurses carried out a hospital-wide HAI point prevalence survey in 2012. A sample of hospitals from five Brazilian regions was evaluated (n=91; total of 8,853 beds).

Results

The overall infection rate was 11.1%, varying from 2.5% (hospitals with <50 beds) to 18.3% (hospitals with > 200 beds). Reference hospitals showed 11.2% of overall infection rate. The most prevalent infections were pneumonia (3.6%), bloodstream infection (3.5%), surgical site infection (1.4%), urinary tract infection (1.1%) and skin infection (0.4%). Hospitals with >200 beds were likely to have higher HAI rates (RR=1.71; IC=1.398-2.10; P<0.001). The risk factors more frequently identified were: central venous catheter (17.8%), surgery (15.5%), urinary catheter (14.0%), and mechanical ventilators (8.1%). Etiologic agents were identified only in 9.1% (43/473) of infections. Gram-negative organisms were more frequent (56.0%), among them, Klebsiella spp (19.0%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (16%) and were predominant. Among Gram-positives (35.0%), coagulase-negative Staphylococci were more prevalent (16%) than Staphylococcus aureus (9.0%) or Enteroccoccus spp (6%). Yeasts were identified in 9.0% of HAI.

Conclusion

These preliminary results emphasize both the relevance and the heterogeneity of HAI in Brazilian hospitals.

Disclosure of interest

None declared.

Authors’ Affiliations

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Tropical Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil
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Public Health, Escola de Enfermagem - USP - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Laboratório Especial de Microbiologia Clínca, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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UFPA - Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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UFC - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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UFPB - Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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IMIP - Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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FIOCRUZ - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Microbiology, UFU - Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil
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UFGO - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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UNIFESP - Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil

Copyright

© Fortaleza et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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