Moreover in this study we analyzed only environmental data because we were given the responsibility of doing only the environmental surveillance; in fact, clinical surveillance was carried out by other institutions and, up to date, we have no information about cases of Legionellosis linked to our environmental data.
A special focus has been placed on microbial air surveillance; in fact, it has been demonstrated that periprosthetic infection rates correlate with the number of airborne bacteria within the wound [ 16] and that, in hospital environments, the use of air filtration through a HEPA system completely eliminated invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immune-compromised patients [ 17].
In fact, surveillance seems to have settled at this level, 44% higher than the more modest numbers of 2006.
"The issue is whether there was in fact surveillance before 9/11 of Atta and, if so, why weren't we told about it?
However, the real shock was not just due to the extent of this surveillance, but the fact that we may be being spied upon by one of our closest friends and allies.
Although Americans are seldom roused to defend privacy in the abstract, the most illiberal and intrusive technologies of surveillance have, in fact, provoked political outrage that has forced the data collectors to retreat.
Referring to a popular British television series about MI5, Dame Eliza said: "I wish life were like 'Spooks', where everything is (a) knowable and (b) soluble by six people".In fact, surveillance uses manpower intensively.
Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany where state surveillance was a fact of life, said her administration and that of US President Barack Obama had "different positions on what's needed to guarantee security and at the same time protect personal data".
In the days since Mr. Snowden fled Hong Kong for Moscow, the Russians and the Chinese have seized both on his revelations about surveillance and the fact that the United States is seeking his arrest to make the case for a you-do-it-too argument.
As our study is a surveillance after the fact, it has no influence on an individual patients' treatment, and therefore, the missing two cases of CLABSI would not appear as a significant problem.
