Ausgabe 1/2013
Inhalt (35 Artikel)
From intermittent antibiotic point prevalence surveys to quality improvement: experience in Scottish hospitals
William Malcolm, Dilip Nathwani, Peter Davey, Tracey Cromwell, Andrea Patton, Jacqueline Reilly, Shona Cairns, Marion Bennie
High proportion of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection in the absence of prior exposure to urinary catheter: a cross-sectional study
Ilker Uçkay, Hugo Sax, Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Christian Ruef, Kathrin Mühlemann, Nicolas Troillet, Christiane Petignat, Enos Bernasconi, Carlo Balmelli, Andreas Widmer, Karim Boubaker, Didier Pittet
Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade
Jean Carlet, Didier Pittet
Impact of universal screening on MRSA bacteremias in a single acute NHS organisation (2006–12): interrupted time-series analysis
Jayanta B Sarma, Bryan Marshall, Victoria Cleeve, David Tate, Tamsin Oswald
“The Chennai declaration” - Indian doctors’ fight against antimicrobial resistance
Andreas Voss, Abdul Ghafur
Outbreak of colonizations by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli sequence type 131 in a neonatal intensive care unit, Italy
Mario Giuffrè, Domenico Cipolla, Celestino Bonura, Daniela Maria Geraci, Aurora Aleo, Stefania Di Noto, Federica Nociforo, Giovanni Corsello, Caterina Mammina
Variations in catheter-related bloodstream infections rates based on local practices
Soraya Cherifi, Georges Mascart, Anne Dediste, Marie Hallin, Michèle Gerard, Marie-Laurence Lambert, Baudouin Byl
Attributable costs of ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) acquired on intensive care units: a retrospectively matched cohort study
Rasmus Leistner, Linda Kankura, Andy Bloch, Dorit Sohr, Petra Gastmeier, Christine Geffers
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey
Marie-Laurence Lambert, Mercedes Palomar, Antonella Agodi, Michael Hiesmayr, Alain Lepape, Anne Ingenbleek, Eduardo Palencia Herrejon, Stijn Blot, Uwe Frank
Difficult-to-detect carbapenem-resistant IMP13-producing P. aeruginosa: experience feedback concerning a cluster of urinary tract infections at a surgical clinic in France
Odile Milan, Laurent Debroize, Xavier Bertrand, Patrick Plesiat, Anne-Sophie Valentin, Roland Quentin, Nathalie Van der Mee-Marquet
The impact of staffing on central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections in preterm neonates – results of nation-wide cohort study in Germany
Rasmus Leistner, Sarah Thürnagel, Frank Schwab, Brar Piening, Petra Gastmeier, Christine Geffers
Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of human and piglet Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotype 078
Elisabeth C Keessen, Marjolein PM Hensgens, Patrizia Spigaglia, Fabrizio Barbanti, Ingrid MJG Sanders, Ed J Kuijper, Len JA Lipman
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus risk profiling: who are we missing?
Janet Pasricha, Stephan Harbarth, Thibaud Koessler, Veronique Camus, Jacques Schrenzel, Gilles Cohen, Didier Pittet, Arnaud Perrier, Anne Iten
Implementation of the world health organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in critical care units
Waleed Mazi, Abiola C Senok, Sameera Al-Kahldy, Diaa Abdullah
A novel approach to improve hand hygiene compliance of student nurses
Sharon Salmon, Xiao Bei Wang, Theresa Seetoh, Siu Yin Lee, Dale A Fisher
Efficacy of hand rubs with a low alcohol concentration listed as effective by a national hospital hygiene society in Europe
Günter Kampf, Christiane Ostermeyer, Heinz-Peter Werner, Miranda Suchomel
The rise of carbapenem resistance in Europe: just the tip of the iceberg?
Anna-Pelagia Magiorakos, Carl Suetens, Dominique L Monnet, Carlo Gagliotti, Ole E Heuer
Carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriacae among internal medicine patients in Switzerland
Janet Pasricha, Thibaud Koessler, Stephan Harbarth, Jacques Schrenzel, Véronique Camus, Gilles Cohen, Arnaud Perrier, Didier Pittet, Anne Iten
Eradication of an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE): the cost of a failure in the systematic screening
Lélia Escaut, Samir Bouam, Marie Frank-Soltysiak, Eric Rudant, Faouzi Saliba, Najiby Kassis, Paul Presiozi, Daniel Vittecoq
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Asia
Deirdre A Collins, Peter M Hawkey, Thomas V Riley
No evidence so far for the dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobactericeae in the community in Switzerland
Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen, Katrin Zurfluh, Herbert Hächler, Roger Stephan
Algorithm for pre-emptive glycopeptide treatment in patients with haematologic malignancies and an Enterococcus faecium bloodstream infection
Xuewei Zhou, Jan P Arends, Lambert FR Span, Alexander W Friedrich
Effectiveness of visual inspection compared with non-microbiologic methods to determine the thoroughness of post-discharge cleaning
Graham M Snyder, Aleah D Holyoak, Katharine E Leary, Bernadette F Sullivan, Roger B Davis, Sharon B Wright
Optimizing antimicrobial prescribing: Are clinicians following national trends in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections rather than local data when treating MRSA wound infections
Marin L Schweizer, Eli N Perencevich, Michael R Eber, Xueya Cai, Michelle D Shardell, Nikolay Braykov, Ramanan Laxminarayan
Antimicrobial stewardship auditing of patients reviewed by infectious diseases physicians in a tertiary university hospital
Chay Leng Yeo, Jia En Wu, Gladys Wei-Teng Chung, Douglas Su-Gin Chan, Hui Hiong Chen, Li Yang Hsu
Rapid detection of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci: impact on decision-making and costs
Gabriel Birgand, Raymond Ruimy, Michael Schwarzinger, Isabelle Lolom, Gisèle Bendjelloul, Nadira Houhou, Laurence Armand-Lefevre, Antoine Andremont, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Jean-Christophe Lucet
Controlling antimicrobial resistance: Interfering in the process of natural selection
Johan W Mouton
Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum
Angela Huttner, Stephan Harbarth, Jean Carlet, Sara Cosgrove, Herman Goossens, Alison Holmes, Vincent Jarlier, Andreas Voss, Didier Pittet
A multicenter quasi-experimental study: impact of a central line infection control program using auditing and performance feedback in five Belgian intensive care units
Soraya Cherifi, Michele Gerard, Sylvie Arias, Baudouin Byl
Virucidal activity of Formulation I of the World Health Organization's alcohol-based handrubs: impact of changes in key ingredient levels and test parameters
Jochen Steinmann, Britta Becker, Birte Bischoff, Thomas Magulski, Joerg Steinmann, Eike Steinmann
Persistence of related bla-IMP-4 metallo-beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae from clinical and environmental specimens within a burns unit in Australia - a six-year retrospective study
Grace HY Leung, Timothy J Gray, Elaine YL Cheong, Peter Haertsch, Thomas Gottlieb
In-vitro experimental evaluation of skin-to-surface recovery of four bacterial species by antibacterial and non-antibacterial medical examination gloves
Johannes Leitgeb, Rupert Schuster, Aik-Hwee Eng, Bit-New Yee, Yee-Peng Teh, Verena Dosch, Ojan Assadian
Nasal carriage rate of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Dessie Referral Hospital Health Care Workers; Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia
Agumas Shibabaw, Tamrat Abebe, Adane Mihret