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The principles involved and the principal types and causes of nosocomial infections occurring in recent years have been well recognized (1, 2). Past experience permits a valuable perspective for the future. Infections occurring in hospital patients reflect the epidemic waves of infection in the general population, especially those of respiratory diseases, but nosocomial infections differ by the occurrence of sporadic and endemic infections that are related to an altered host susceptibility to opportunistic microorganisms in the hospital setting. A wide variety of different host and hospital conditions are involved, and the resultant infections have greatly different biologic, clinical and economical consequences. Host specific attack rates are not know for most of the patient categories and prevalence rates of infection have been considered ranging from under 1% (hip prosthesis) to 70% in granulocytopenic, Immunosuppressed patients.
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Jackson, G.G. (1982). Future Trends in Nosocomial Infections: Understanding Selectivity and Specificity in Microbial Opportunism. In: Van Furth, R. (eds) Evaluation and Management of Hospital Infections. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7657-3_32
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