Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE: To assess the epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection (HAI) in Africa. METHODS: Three databases (PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the WHO regional medical database for Africa) were searched to identify studies published from 1995 to 2009 on the epidemiology of HAI in Afr...

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Main Authors: Sepideh Bagheri Nejad, Benedetta Allegranzi, Shamsuzzoha B Syed, Benjamin Ellis, Didier Pittet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2011-10-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011001000015&lng=en&tlng=en