From the *Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico;
†Hospital de la Mujer, Mexico City, Mexico,
‡International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), Buenos Aires, Argentina;
§Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico;
∥Centro Médico La Raza IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico;
¶Hospital General de la Celaya, Celaya, Mexico; and
**Hospital General de Irapuato, Irapuato, Mexico.
Correspondence: Victor D. Rosenthal, MD, MSc, CIC, International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), 11 de Septiembre # 4567, Floor 12, Apt 1201, Buenos Aires, ZIP 1429, Argentina (e-mail: [email protected], URL: www.INICC.org).
Potential conflicts of interest: All authors report no conflicts of interest related to this article. Every hospital's institutional review board agreed to the study protocol, and patient confidentiality was protected by codifying the recorded information, making it only identifiable to the infection control team.
The funding for the activities carried out at INICC head quarters were provided by the corresponding author, Victor D. Rosenthal, and Foundation to Fight Against Nosocomial Infections.
