We have started activities to assess levels of resistant bacterial colonization in a range of neonatal units in various European Countries
Successful start to NeoIPC research activities
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NeoIPC joins the World Prematurity Day 2021
Today is World Prematurity Day! Initiated in 2008 by EFCNI – the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants, this celebration aims to raise awareness about the burden and challenges of being born prematurely. When a baby is born before 37 weeks of gestation,...
LAB-Net Fights Resistant Bacteria in NICUs
LAB-Net/The Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) of the University of Antwerp will play a key role in NeoIPC, a new Horizon 2020-funded project coordinated by Fondazione Penta and St George’s Hospital Medical School. NeoIPC aims to reduce the transmission of...
NeoIPC: a new project to improve prevention and control of infections in newborns
NeoIPC, a project seeking to reduce the transmission of resistant bacteria in neonatal intensive care units, has just launched. Nearly 1 in 10 newborns in Europe is admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the first days of life, around 400,000 admissions...