Since inception, the database was updated weekly directly from the institution's central microbiological system.
A recent traditional culture based microbiological study of water and water distribution systems in a number of hospital departments revealed high levels of contamination by GNB-NE [ 6].
In addition, these relationships have been empirically substantiated by recent multidisciplinary biogeochemical and microbiological studies of existing microbial communities and their metabolic functions in representative deep-sea hydrothermal systems in different geographic locations and geological settings.
More than 60% of the responding hospitals had a syndromic surveillance system, and only 32% had microbiological surveillance system, (with especially low percentage in primary referral hospitals, at less than 10%).
Currently, there are only about 20-30% of hospitals that have microbiological surveillance systems important for investigation of public health emergencies, compared to 64.5% of hospitals in China [ 14].
The present study shows an enormous improvement of the microbiological quality of air when using the AC system in all cars tested.
Underlying disease, stem-cell transplantation, solid organ transplantation and presence of other microbiological findings in central nervous system were recorded.
Water samples collected from water supply systems were tested for microbiological parameters in accordance with the methods specified in the standing European legislation[ 15].
However, while physico-chemical quality remained constant in both systems, microbiological quality of effluent from the UV-disinfection process was shown to depend on the quality of influent, particularly with regard to transmittance.
Blood was collected in a One BacT/Alert pediatric blood culture bottle (bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) and incubated in the BacT/Alert automated culturing system at the clinical microbiological laboratory in Vaasa.
