title: Health care-related infections in solid organ transplants.
abstract: The health care-related infections are well-known in a critical care setting, but reports of those infections in solid organ transplanted patients are scarce. We developed a study of retrospective cohort in a tertiary teaching hospital for 14 months. Eighty-one patients underwent solid organ transplants. The global incidence of health care-related infection was 42.0%. Fifteen percent of the cases were occurrences of surgical site infections, 14.0% pneumonias, 9.0% primary blood stream infections, 4.0% urinary tract infections and 2.0% skin infection. The most prevalent etiologic agents were K. pneumoniae (8.6%), P. aeruginosa (7.4%); A. baumannii (5.0%) and S. aureus (2.5%). Mortality was 18.0%, none of then related to health care infections. The high rate of those infections, mainly surgical site infections, suggests a demand for stricter measures to prevent and control health care-related infections.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Epidemiology Committee, Division of Infectious Diseases, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Sola
authors.forename: A R C
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Bittencourt
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Guerra
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Godoy
authors.forename: E A S
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Medeiros
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016377:Organ Transplantation