Global Hospital Acquired Infections Market Size, Share, Forecast Report, 2020-2027

A hospital acquired infection (HAI) or nosocomial infection or health care associated infection (HAI or HCAI), is an infection that is acquired in a health care facility. The infection acquired in health care facility by a patient must be other than the one for which the patient was admitted and includes infections acquired in the hospital however effects and symptoms appear after discharge. The HAI also includes occupational infection among staff of the hospital.

The infection can originate from outside environment, another infected patient, or from staff that may be infected; in some cases, the source of the infection cannot be determined. There are cases where microorganism originates from the patient's own skin micro biota, becoming opportunistic after surgery or other procedures that compromise the protective skin barrier. WHO estimates that 8.7% of hospital patients had nosocomial infections affecting over 1.4 million people worldwide.

The market’s driving factors are nature and virulence of the microbial agent, patient susceptibility such as immunity, presence of other diseases, environmental factors such as infected materials and bacterial load in hospitals, crowding, temperature and humidity etc., bacterial resistance to drugs, the age of patient., high prevalence of HAI, lack of awareness, poor training and infection control practices, poor hospital infrastructure and regulation, low expenditure on healthcare, rise of chronic diseases with prolonged stay in hospitals etc.
Key Players for Global Hospital-acquired infections Market:

Some of the key players in this market are: Advanced Sterilization Products, 3M Company, Becton Dickinson and company, STERIS Corporation, Getinge AB, Cantel Medical Corp., Belimed AG, and others.

Segments:

Global hospital acquired infections market has been segmented on the basis of pathogen types which comprises of viral, bacterial and fungal. On the basis of method of treatment the market is segmented into sterilization, chemical, radiation and on the basis of infection type market is segmented into urinary tract infections, blood stream infections, surgical site infections, gastrointestinal infections, and respiratory infections.