The study unit is the single ICU providing intensive care facilities to this 924 bed hospital and has 10 ICU beds that are housed in three compartments. The first isolate obtained per species was selected per patient unless there was a gap of >5 days between the two specimens or a ...
They comprise less than 5% of the general population and can be found among commercial sex workers, haemophiliacs receiving HIV contaminated blood, healthcare workers, children from HIV-infected mothers, intravenous drug users and seronegative partners in a discordant couple (Hirbod and Broliden, ...