Sentence examples for outbreak unit from inspiring English sources

Antimicrobial drug use in the outbreak unit demonstrated no major difference from that in the other critical care units in the hospital network.

The need for an outbreak response unit is crucial to combat any future outbreak.

Establishing an outbreak response unit within the healthcare sector should be a priority with appropriate resources.

The center should also include an outbreak response unit that can be called on to spearhead coordinated action in a timely manner.

Within 72 hours of the declared outbreak, two units were converted into SARS wards, one with 22 rooms, the other with 27.

For example, it has been demonstrated that, even in the absence of a recognized outbreak, hospital units caring for immunosuppressed patients can reduce infection rates by using water filtration at the point of use (4 ).

Statistical testing was performed when space-time clusters of outbreaks met two criteria: A. A cluster of outbreaks was defined as two or more unit outbreaks, occurring in the same hospital.

In Saudi Arabia, CTX-M-15 producing K. pneumoniae was responsible for a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak [ 11].

A neonatal intensive care unit outbreak was caused by a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus previously found in the community (ST45-MRSA-IV).

A total of 2,154 patients (2.21 cases/1,000-hospital-days) and 1,360 healthcare staff (0.47 cases/1,000-hospital-days) were affected in 227 unit outbreaks (1.33 outbreaks/unit-year). Norovirus, detected in 63% of outbreaks, was the predominant etiologic agent.

Specimens were taken for diagnostic analyses in 122 (51%) of the 227 hospital unit outbreaks (Table 1).