Publications by authors named "G Ruiz-Carrascoso"
Introduction: Although pets provide several social-emotional benefits for children, the risk of zoonosis must be considered among immunocompromised individuals.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted in a tertiary hospital including immunocompromised patients younger than 20 years owning dogs and/or cats. Colonization and/or infection was evaluated by stool studies, bacterial swabs, blood polymerase chain reaction and serological studies in both patients and their pets, to evaluate potential zoonotic transmission occurrence.
Article Synopsis
- Community-acquired (CA) and healthcare-associated (HCA) infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE), particularly Klebsiella pneumoniae (CP-Kp) and Escherichia coli (CP-Ec), are not well understood, prompting a study of their clinical and molecular characteristics.
- A cohort study involving 59 Spanish hospitals analyzed 386 patients, finding that 76.3% had infections caused by CPE, with most cases being HCA or nosocomial, and urinary tract infections as the most common infection type.
- The study revealed a significant mortality rate of 28% for those with infections, with nosocomial infections having higher mortality rates; understanding these patterns
Increase of healthcare-onset Clostridioides difficile infection in adult population since SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study in a tertiary care hospital from 2019 to 2022.
Anaerobe
April 2024
Objectives: The aim was to assess the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the prevalence, relative incidence (RI), incidence density (ID), ratio of rate incidence (RRI), rate of incidence density (RID), and relative risks (RR) of healthcare-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) as well as its correlation with the antibiotic consumption.
Methods: Demographic and analytical data of adult patients exhibiting diarrhoea and testing positive for C. difficile were systematically collected from a tertiary care hospital in Madrid (Spain).