A microbiology technologist is working at the bench and noti…
A microbiology technologist is working at the bench and notices that a patient from the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) grows a Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium that is an extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing isolate. This technologist would advise the physician to
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To keep abreast of all infections that occur in the hospital, infection control practitioners set up surveillance programs. These surveillance programs look at this parameter to determine if there are more or fewer infections in a given period.
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