Secondary objectives are to study the epidemiology of MDR infections in Spanish ICUs, to be able to distinguish imported from ICU-acquired cases, to promote and strengthen safety assurance in participating units, and to create a network of ICUs implementing safe, and evidence-based practices.
Tariff quotas may be distinguished from import quotas.
Patients can be susceptible (S) or colonized, with the latter subdivided as isolated (I) or unisolated, distinguished as imported cases (patients colonized at admission C 1 ) or acquired cases (patients acquiring ESBL-E in the unit, C 2 ).
Because our hepatocyte culture model does not allow to distinguish experimentally import and export, single irreversible, actively mediated transport steps for both directions, as well as passive diffusion steps were considered for each compound, respectively, similar to mechanistic transport models of other studies [ 33, 34].
All ICUs performed high-compliance admission and weekly surveillance bilateral nares cultures for MRSA and rectal cultures for VRE, providing a systematic method to distinguish between imported and incident cases during endemic conditions.
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The objects that were made locally can easily be distinguished from those imported from Egypt by the comparative ineptitude of their ornament.
It distinguished between goods imported from European countries, which could be brought in either English ships or ships of the country of origin, and goods brought from Asia, Africa, or America, which could travel to England, Ireland, or any English colony only in ships from England or the particular colony.
All dengue fever cases were distinguished as indigenous or imported cases according to the corresponding case definition.
