Reports on surgical site infections and hospital acquired bacteraemias from the English Nosocomial Infection National Surveillance Scheme

Reports on surgical site infection (SSI) and hospital acquired bacteraemia (HAB) were published this week from the Nosocomial Infection National Surveillance Service (NINSS) provided by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) in London. These publications are available on the PHLS website (http://www.phls.org.uk/publications/NINSS.htm) and summarise data reported to the Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Unit (NISU) of the PHLS for the period 1997 to 2000.