Question 25 · LEK · Hospital-acquired infections
Nosocomial infections are an example of the contemporary epidemic spread of infectious diseases. Which of the following concerning these infections is false?
- A. particular risk related to hospital stay is due to frequent contacts with mutations of pathogens resistant to antibiotics and antimicrobial/antibacterial agents.
- B. nosocomial infections require additional tests and therapeutic agents.
- C. as a result of nosocomial infections the number of deaths in each age range increases.
- D. from the epidemiological point of view, nosocomial infections may be of pandemic nature.
- E. hospital personnel and visitors are additional source of infection.
Hint
Consider the geographic scale of hospital infections — do they represent one pathogen spreading across the world at once?
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