Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Ruijie Yin, Zhilin Jin, Safaa Abdulaziz Alkhawaja, Maria Adelia Zuñiga Chavarria, Estuardo Salgado, Amani El-Kholy, Julio C Zuniga Moya, Priyanka Patil, Gita Nadimpalli, Rao Nadimpalli Pattabhiramarao, Dolatsinh Zala, Isabel Villegas Mota, Bat-Erdene Ider, Nellie Tumu, Wieslawa Duszynska, Le Thi Thu Nguyet, Pravin K Nair, Ziad A Memish
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection (SSI) prevalence is higher in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) than in high-income counterparts. This study covers 116 INICC member hospitals in 75 cities across 25 Latin American, Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern countries, including Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela, and Vietnam...
April 9, 2024: American Journal of Infection Control