Prevention and control of hospital and community acquired infections caused by multi drug resistant organisms (MDROs) are one major priority nowadays for health care systems worldwide. To improve actions and plans to tackle this problem, the creation of automated regional, national and international MDRO surveillance networks is a mandatory path for international health Institutions and Ministries. In this paper, the authors report on the surveillance system designed for the Abruzzo Region (Central Italy) to monitor the prevalence of MDROs in both infected and colonized patients, to verify appropriateness of antibiotic prescription in hospitalized patients and to interact with other national and sovra-national networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a detailed structural investigation of a series of fluoride-phosphate glasses with different phosphate/fluoride ratios in the system xSr(PO)-(100 - x)[AlF-CaF-SrF-MgF] with x = 5, 10, 20, 40. Raman and multinuclear solid NMR spectroscopies confirm that the polyphosphate network structure is successively transformed to a structure dominated by Al-O-P linkages with increasing AlF content. Average numbers of Al-O-P linkages have been quantified by Al/P NMR double-resonance techniques.
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