The Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (AENOR) publishes a new standard UNE 100030:2017 on the prevention and control of Legionella. This standard replaces the previous one by expanding its content. The new measures foreseen in this standard will prevent Legionellosis infection, considered a serious and dangerous infection in our Hospitals. This new UNE will […]
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The hospitals are prepared at the level of services and furniture to avoid the spread of Legionella, although cases continue to occur. This is the main topic that was discussed at the 35th National Congress of Hospital Engineering.In the congress the lecturer Isabel Marin made mention to that same fact, that although all the Hospitals are
“It is very difficult not to have a Legionella infection in a hospital.” Read More »
In view of the different cases that we have encountered lately we have decided to carry out this brief summary about the Klebsiella, effects, sources and their relevance for their presence in water for human consumption, The microorganisms of this genus which was named after Edwin Klebs, a german microbiologist of the late nineteenth century,
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The microbes that the patients carry when they enter take over the room in just one day. Hospitals are immense bacterial planet. There are countries where it is easier to catch an infection in the hospital than on the street and you do not have to go to sub-Saharan Africa. In Spain, six out of
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Our filters have been published in the FIAMC, as a model to sanitize the water in countries where it is not possible to use its massive purification. Doctors use the new membrane filtration systems to obtain microbiologically pure water as final users. With filters, all types of pathogens are retained, offering sterile filtration, protecting all
The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing its efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance, one of the greatest threats to global health today. OMS is publishing for the first time a list of priority pathogens for which new antibiotics are urgently needed. These have been divided into three categories according to the urgency with which the
Superbacteria found in people, animals and food in the European Union pose an alarming threat to public health and food, as they have evolved to become resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics, as medical professionals warn. There are known to be 25,000 deaths each year in the EU because of these superbugs. Considerable efforts
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Transmission between patients occurs through the hands of health care personnel and through contact with contaminated surfaces. Material: from the detection of PAMR infection with antibiotic sensitive only to colistin and amikacin, a microbiological screening of all colonized and / or infected patients admitted to the unit was carried out. A multidisciplinary study group was
The latest report of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) case of a patient who dies given a superbacteria, which enhances the significant increase of these pathogens to survive to actual treatments, even those considered more efficient. In conclusion the scientists emphasize the need to perform a greater supervision and control of these bacterias. More information:
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Fotografía: Ariadna Creus i Àngel García There are many articles describing a reality, and that is none other that there are many deaths caused by nosocomial infections several that are not being referred as to. These are, no doubt, very underestimated worldwide. The reason are the obvious problems caused by documenting own failures such us
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