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Hospital infections and hospital hygiene at Malmö General Hospital: 1. The incidence of staphylococcal infections during three years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Carl Ericson  and
Ingmar Juhlin
Carl Ericson
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Bacteriology (University of Lund) General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
Ingmar Juhlin
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Bacteriology (University of Lund) General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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The incidence of purulent staphylococcal infections at a large Swedish university hospital was followed during 3 years and has been described as an expression of the incidence of hospital infections.

A marked decrease in the relative number of infections was found. The decrease was most evident among infections with ‘80/81’ strains and other antibiotic resistant hospital strains and was parallel in all the departments investigated. This is taken as an evidence for the assumption that the lowering of the amount of staphylococcal infections was brought about by a factor that was active throughout the hospital, probably some hygienic preventive measure.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , March 1965 , pp. 25 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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