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Clostridium difficile infections in a tertiary hospital : value of surveillance

Lekalakala, M. Ruth; Lewis, E.; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed (Elsevier, 2010)

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In vitro activity of tigecycline against clinical isolates of carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii complex in Pretoria, South Africa

Ahmed, Nahid H.; Baba, Kamaldeen A.; Clay, Cornelius G.; Lekalakala, M. Ruth; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed (BioMed Central, 2012-05-03)

BACKGROUND: The presence of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii raises a big therapeutic challenge in our hospital. Tigecycline, a new glycylcycline with expanded broad spectrum of activity against multi-drug ...
Infection prevention and control for viral infections

Lekalakala, M. Ruth (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-05)

Infection prevention and control (IPC) is the new terminology used for what was previously referred to as simply 'infection control'. It is an important component of health care and all health care workers (doctors, nurses, ...
Meningococcal infections in hospitalised patients in Pretoria

Moodley, Teshni; Lekalakala, M. Ruth; De Gouveia, L.; Dangor, Yusuf; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-10)

We report on 13 patients diagnosed with meningococcal infections in patients attending state-owned hospitals serving an indigent population in Pretoria in 2009. The case fatality rate was 27%. Ceftriaxone was the main ...
National sentinel site surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in South Africa, 2010 - 2012

Perovic, Olga; Singh-Moodley, A.; Duse, Adriano; Bamford, Colleen; Elliott, G.; Swe Swe-Han, K .; Kularatne, R.; Lowman, W.; Whitelaw, Andrew; Nana, Trusha; Wadula, Jeannette; Lekalakala, M. Ruth; Saif, A.; Fortuin De-Smidt, M.; Marais, E. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-08)

BACKGROUND. The increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance observed in the nosocomial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae are of major public health concern worldwide. Objectives. To describe the antibiotic susceptibility ...

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