Impact of time of culture specimen collection on the recovery of after a positive nucleic acid amplification test.

Objectives: Culture of remains essential for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance. We evaluated the effect of time of specimen collection on culture yield following a positive nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT).

Methods: We retrospectively assessed culture yield among asymptomatic individuals (largely men who have sex with men) who attended for sexual health screening and had a positive NAAT.

Drassanes Exprés: a public and confidential testing service for asymptomatic STIs with same-day result notification.

Background: STIs are a major public health concern. Screening programmes for asymptomatic users are key components of STI control. Traditional limitations of screening programmes include low population coverage and delays in treatments, thus reducing the expected impact on STI control.

[Design and implementation of management strategies for the improvement in the implementation of the warnings of isolation in a pediatric hospital].

Introduction: children's Hospital Vail d'Hebron in 2007 children admitted 7086, requiring isolation 440 (6.2%). The purpose of this study was to raise the overall level of adherence to the basic precautions of isolation.

[Phlebitis in peripheral catheters (II). A study].

The study group consisted of 121 patients, 37 or 30.5% women and 84 or 69.4% men, checked into the Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Hospitalization Unit who bore a total of 215 peripheral venous catheters.

[Phlebitis in peripheral catheters (I). Incidence and risk factors].

The type of pathology and the current therapeutic tendencies justify that endovenous therapy is the most frequently selected one. Although it has multiple advantages, it bears with it a series of infectious type complications (bacterial infections, phlebitis and thrombophlebitis). Even though bacterial infections in peripheral intravascular vessels have a low occurrence rate, which some authors list as between 1 and 2%, in central intravascular vessels, their occurrence is usually higher.