Djordjevic Zorana M, Markovic-Denic Ljiljana, Folic Marko M, Igrutinovic Zoran, Jankovic Slobodan M
Epidemiology Department, Clinical Centre, Kragujevac, Serbia.
Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Am J Infect Control. 2015 Jan;43(1):86-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.005.
A 1-year prospective cohort study of health care-acquired infections was conducted at the neonatal intensive care unit of the University Clinical Centre Kragujevac, Serbia. The incidence rate of neonates with health care-acquired infections was 18.6%, and the incidence rate of the infections themselves was 19.4%. The incidence density of the health care-acquired infections was 9.1 per 1,000 patient days. The independent risk factors for health care-acquired infections were birth weight, length of hospitalization, duration of mechanical ventilation, and Apgar score. More than half of all isolated microorganisms were Klebsiella-Enterobacter (39.3%) and Escherichia coli (25.0%).
