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A study of nosocomial infection in relation to different host factors in an Indian teaching hospital

P. Ganguly

Dept of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202001 India

M. Yunus

Dept of Community Medicine

A. Khan

Dept of Community Medicine

A. Malik

Dept of Microbiology Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College

Out of a total of 422 patients studied, 164 (38.8%) developed nosocomial infec tion. The rate was higher (41.6%) in males than in females (34.7%). A rising trend of infection was observed with age, maximum (69.6%) being in the above 60 age group. No socomial infection rate was inversely proportional to the socio-economic status of the patient. At the same time some underlying diseases in the patients influenced the rate of infection to a great extent, eg infection rates in patients with anaemia (53.7%), diabetes mellitus (85.2%), hypertension (82.0%) and obesity (51.5%) were much more than in patients with no such underlying disease (17.5%).

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 115, No. 4, 244-246 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/146642409511500409
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