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community-acquired infection |
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community-acquired infection, an infection contracted outside of a health care setting or an infection present on admission. Community-acquired infections are often distinguished from nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, diseases by the types of organisms that affect patients who are recovering from a disease or injury. Community-acquired respiratory infections commonly involve strains of Haemophilus influenzae or Streptococcus pneumoniae and are usually more antibiotic sensitive. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Community-acquired infection probably included healthcare-associated infections, a recently described epidemiologic category distinct from both community-acquired and nosocomial status. As the rates of both facility-and community-acquired infection incidence rise, active and accurate reporting of infection is failing to keep pace. The bacteriologies of hospital- and community-acquired infection differed substantially (Table 2), and both differ from pneumonia, which is consistent with previous small reports (5-15). |
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