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January 2003 - present
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- Head, Infection Control Service/ Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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Background
Short-term peripheral venous catheter–associated bloodstream infection rates have not been systematically studied in Asian countries, and data on peripheral venous catheter–associated bloodstream infections incidence by number of short-term peripheral venous catheter days are not available.
Methods
Prospective, surveillance study on per...
Here, we report the draft assemblies of 11 clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae that are resistant to cephalosporins, carbapenems, and/or colistin. The assemblies ranged from 5.37 Mbp to 5.70 Mbp in size. Several plasmid sequences were present, and resistance genes spanning multiple classes of antibiotics were predicted.
We sought to determine the epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and to investigate the emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in two teaching hospitals in Manila, Philippines. We screened 364 Enterobacteriaceae for carbapenem resistance between 2012 and 2013 and detected four carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae is...
We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN...
ABSTRACT
We report the results of an international nosocomial infection control consortium (INICC) survei
study from January 2007 through December 2012 in 503 ICUs in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and E
During the 6-year study, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) US National Heal
Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associ...
To assess the impact of a multidimensional infection control approach on the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in adult intensive care units (AICUs) in two hospitals in the Philippines that are members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium.
This was a before-after prospective active survei...
Objective:
To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional hand hygiene approach in 19 limited-resource countries and to analyze predictors of poor hand hygiene compliance.
Design:
An observational, prospective, cohort, interventional, before-and-after study from A...
Objective:
To analyze the impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional infection control approach to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates.
Setting:
Four neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) of INICC member hospitals from El Salvador, Mexico, Philippines, and Tunisia....
Objective
To analyze the impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional infection control approach to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates.
Setting
Four neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) of INICC member hospitals from El Salvador, Mexico, Philippines, and Tunisia.
Pa...
Objective. To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional hand hygiene approach in 19 limited-resource countries and to analyze predictors of poor hand hygiene compliance.
Design. An observational, prospective, cohort, interventional, before-and-after study from Apr...
A before-after prospective surveillance study to assess the impact of a multidimensional infection control approach for the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates.
Pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) of hospital members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) from 10 cities of the foll...
Design
Before-after prospective surveillance study to assess the efficacy of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional infection control program to reduce the rate of occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Setting
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) of INICC member hospitals from 15 cities i...
We aimed to evaluate the impact of a multidimensional infection control strategy for the reduction of the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in patients hospitalized in adult intensive care units (AICUs) of hospitals which are members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), from 40 cities...
We report the results of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium prospective surveillance study from January 2004 to December 2009 in 33 pediatric intensive care units of 16 countries and the impact of being in a private vs. public hospital and the income country level on device-associated health care-associated infection rates. A...
To analyze the impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional infection control strategy including a practice bundle to reduce the rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLAB) in patients hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) of hospitals, which are members of the INICC...
The results of a surveillance study conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control
Consortium (INICC) from January 2004 through December 2009 in 422 intensive care units (ICUs) of 36
countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe are reported. During the 6-year study period, using
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most common health care-associated infections in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). Practice bundles have been shown to reduce VAP rates in PICUs in developed countries; however, the impact of a multidimensional approach, including a bundle, has not been analyzed in PICUs from developing coun...
The results of a surveillance study conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) from January 2004 through December 2009 in 422 intensive care units (ICUs) of 36 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe are reported. During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
To evaluate the impact of country socioeconomic status and hospital type on device-associated healthcare-associated infections (DA-HAIs) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Data were collected on DA-HAIs from September 2003 to February 2010 on 13,251 patients in 30 NICUs in 15 countries. DA-HAIs were defined using criteria formulated by the C...
This study investigated the rate of device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI), microbiological profiles, bacterial resistance, length of stay (LOS), and mortality rate in 9 intensive care units (ICUs) of 3 hospital members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in the Philippines.
This was an open-lab...
Background: Central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) rates in limited resources countries are significantly higher than international standards of developed countries; but is it not known if limited resources countries’ socio economic level and the hospital type are associated with a different CLABSI rate.
Objective: To determine i...
Background: Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) rates in Philippines are significantly higher that international standards of developed countries. There are no previous data from Philippines showing a successful intervention to reduce CAUTI rates.
Objective: We report a time-sequence analysis of the effectiveness of performance f...
Background: CAUTI rates in limited resources countries are significantly higher than international standards of developed countries; but is it not known if the socio economic level of the limited resources country and the hospital type is associated with a different CAUTI rate.
Objective: To determine if device-associated infections (DAI) rates i...
We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from 2002 through 2007in 98 intensive care units (ICU's) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study, using Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) def...
Cryptococcus neoformans is present in areas contaminated with pigeon droppings. Unrecognized infections are hypothesized to occur commonly among immunocompetent individuals. We used serology to estimate prevalence of cryptococcal infection in immunocompetent children from 3 regions. Our results indicate unrecognized cryptococcal infections are extr...
Background: This study investigated the rate of device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), microbiological profiles , bacterial resistance, length of stay (LOS), and mortality rate in 9 intensive care units (ICUs) of 3 hospital members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in the Philippines. Methods...
