For determining infection versus contamination, rule B1 used only microbiology data, while rule B2 used microbiologic and pharmacy data.
S.S. acquired and analyzed the microbiology data, the confocal microscopy, assisted with surgical implants in the rodent studies, and edited the manuscript.
Observational studies can be carried out utilizing infection control surveillance data, clinical microbiology data, and a robust hospital-based clinical database, which can be queried electronically.
Data collected included demographic details, cause and duration of symptoms, presenting and final visual acuity, surgical interventions, and microbiology data.
Of the 14 infections in the control group, 6 yielded Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), 4 resulted in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), 1 grew Staphylococcus epidermidis, and 3 had no microbiology data available.
An automated algorithm combining microbiology, pharmacy and coding data has become the case-finding method of choice at some institutions [13] although this may have limited advantages compared to microbiology data and incurs increased costs [14].
Microbiology data was also recorded.
Demographic, clinical and microbiology data were collected.
The Department of Microbiology at UCLH for the microbiology data.
Broadening SSTI case identification with microbiology data and CPT codes attenuates the PPV.
However, few studies have been based on collected microbiology data regarding fungi.
