PATIENT REFERRAL PATTERNS AND THE SPREAD OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS THROUGH NATIONAL HEALTH CARE NETWORKS.

Patient referral patterns and the spread of hospital-acquired infections through national health care networks.

Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene.Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized HOPS patients.We assessed if different referral pattern

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Structural Changes in Slovenian Criminal Procedure over the Last 20 Years (Strukturne spremembe slovenskega kazenskega procesnega prava v zadnjih dvajsetih letih)

The author analyses changes to Slovenian criminal procedure between 1994, when the first Slovenian code was adopted on the basis of the last consistent Yugoslavian model (enacted in 1967) to the present day.Thirteen amendments have already been made to the Code since 1994, and the author argues that it is the role of public prosecutor which has cha

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Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.

Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are the cyclical vectors of Trypanosoma spp., which are unicellular parasites responsible for multiple diseases, including nagana in livestock and sleeping sickness in humans in Africa.Glossina species, including Glossina morsitans morsitans (Gmm), for which the Whole Genome Duffel Bag Sequence (WGS) is now available, h

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