[Hospital infection control in 21st century, the importance of networking with each division and clinical laboratory in the hospital. 1. From the aspect of clinical laboratory division].
Clinical laboratory division plays an important roll for the management of nosocomial infection. Staff from clinical laboratory division including technologist and/or medical doctor can work as a part of infection control team. Since the bacterial surveillance data from clinically isolated strains accumulates in the clinical laboratory division, these staff have a chance to notice outbreak in hospital at first time. While handling information from each strain, we need to feedback these data with additional information for physicians. From June, 2000, a national project started. That was a surveillance program for drag-resistant bacteria. We can compare information from local isolates and nation-wide isolates by this project. Genotypic methods especially pulsed-field gel electrophoresis(PFGE) is suitable for the identification of infection route in the hospital environment. And PFGE analysis for pathogenic strains works effective in our hospital.
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Division of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Yokohama City University Hospital, Yokohama 236-0004.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*