Ausgabe 1/2020
Inhalt (197 Artikel)
Implementation and impact of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs: a systematic scoping review
D. Donà, E. Barbieri, M. Daverio, R. Lundin, C. Giaquinto, T. Zaoutis, M. Sharland
Clinical characteristics of patients with pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan and prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant and hypervirulent strains: a retrospective study
Chih-Han Juan, Shih-Yu Fang, Chia-Hsin Chou, Tsung-Ying Tsai, Yi-Tsung Lin
High clonal diversity of ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from clinical samples in a non-outbreak situation. A cohort study
Mariona Xercavins, Elena Jiménez, Emma Padilla, Montserrat Riera, Núria Freixas, Lucia Boix-Palop, Josefa Pérez, Esther Calbo
The complex phenomenon of dysrational antibiotics prescribing decisions in German primary healthcare: a qualitative interview study using dual process theory
Regina Poss-Doering, Martina Kamradt, Anna Stuermlinger, Katharina Glassen, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Edith Andres, Michel Wensing
Infection prevention practices in the Netherlands: results from a National Survey
Anita Huis, Jeroen Schouten, Dominique Lescure, Sarah Krein, David Ratz, Sanjay Saint, Marlies Hulscher, M. Todd Greene
Antibiotic use in chicken farms in northwestern China
Jingyi Xu, Rassamee Sangthong, Edward McNeil, Rong Tang, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
Risk factors for quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Dong-Mei Zhu, Qiu-Hong Li, Yan Shen, Qin Zhang
Widespread illegal sales of antibiotics in Chinese pharmacies – a nationwide cross-sectional study
Jie Chen, Yanmei Wang, Xuejie Chen, Therese Hesketh
Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and healthcare-associated infections in Belgian acute care hospitals: results of the Global-PPS and ECDC-PPS 2017
Eline Vandael, Katrien Latour, Herman Goossens, Koen Magerman, Nico Drapier, Boudewijn Catry, Ann Versporten, Marie Andre, Samy Aouachria, Mickael Aoun, Kristof Bafort, Sofie Bartholomeus, Sophie Blumental, Anaïs Bothy, Christiane Brands, Laetitia Brassinne, Caroline Briquet, Reinoud Cartuyvels, Clara Ceyssens, Sarah Cooreman, Pierre-Yves Decleire, Philippe Declercq, Liesbeth De Cooman, Inge De Cuyper, Dirk Degraeve, Bénédicte Delaere, Mélanie Delvallée, Marjoleine Desmedt, Victoria Diaz, Ilisei Dragos, Thierry Dugernier, Elodie Elsen, Lorenzo Filippin, Eric Firre, Johan Frans, Patrick Gabriëls, Philippe Gadisseux, Michele Gerard, Bart Glibert, Truus Goegebuer, Viviane Gonissen, Antoine Harrouk, Xavier Holemans, Aline Honore, Louis Ide, Hilde Jansens, François Kidd, Annelies Koch, Deborah Konopnicki, Philippe Lefèvre, Marc Lespagnard, Sophie Lorent, Evelyne Maillart, Martine Mallet, Samuel Markowicz, Delphine Mathieu, Philippe Michel, Séverine Noirhomme, Pauline Papin, Anne Piette, Leen Pollet, Camelia Rossi, Patricia Schatt, Erica Sermijn, Astrid Sterckx, Sophia Steyaert, Walter Swinnen, Liliana Teixeira Lopes, Inge Thoelen, Myriam Turkova, Anne-Marie Van den Abeele, Valérie van den Berg, Danielle Van der beek, Vanessa Vanderper, Marc Vandevelde, Wouter Vandewal, Bruno Van Herendael, Geert Vanheule, Frederik Van Hoecke, Dana Van Kerkhoven, Ann Van Liedekerke, Lorenz Vanneste, Marc Vekemans, Christelle Vercheval, Katia Verhamme, Thessa Verniest, Veerle Westerlinck, Ingrid Wybo
Epidemiological characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae collected from 17 hospitals in Nanjing district of China
Hui Zhou, Kui Zhang, Wei Chen, Junhao Chen, Jie Zheng, Chang Liu, Li Cheng, Wanqing Zhou, Han Shen, Xiaoli Cao
An estimation of total antimicrobial usage in humans and animals in Vietnam
Juan J. Carrique-Mas, Marc Choisy, Nguyen Van Cuong, Guy Thwaites, Stephen Baker
Implementation of human factors engineering approach to improve environmental cleaning and disinfection in a medical center
I-Chen Hung, Hao-Yuan Chang, Aristine Cheng, Mei-Wen Chen, An-Chi Chen, Ling Ting, Yeur-Hur Lai, Jann-Tay Wang, Yee-Chun Chen, Wang-Huei Sheng
Infection control and risk factors for acquisition of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae. A 5 year (2011–2016) case-control study
Luigi Segagni Lusignani, Elisabeth Presterl, Beata Zatorska, Miriam Van den Nest, Magda Diab-Elschahawi
Spread of multidrug resistance among Ureaplasma serovars, Tunisia
Safa Boujemaa, Béhija Mlik, Amina Ben Allaya, Helmi Mardassi, Boutheina Ben Abdelmoumen Mardassi
Multimodal strategy in surgical site infections control and prevention in orthopaedic patients – a 10-year retrospective observational study at a Polish hospital
Małgorzata Kołpa, Roża Słowik, Marta Wałaszek, Zdzisław Wolak, Anna Różańska, Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach
Ten-year resistance trends in pathogens causing healthcare-associated infections; reflection of infection control interventions at a multi-hospital healthcare system in Saudi Arabia, 2007–2016
Hanan H. Balkhy, Aiman El-Saed, Majid M. Alshamrani, Asim Alsaedi, Wafa Al Nasser, Ayman El Gammal, Sameera M. Aljohany, Sara Almunif, Yassen Arabi, Saad Alqahtani, Henry Baffoe Bonnie, Majed Alghoribi, Adel Alothman, Saad A. Almohrij
Does vancomycin resistance increase mortality in Enterococcus faecium bacteraemia after orthotopic liver transplantation? A retrospective study
S. Dubler, M. Lenz, S. Zimmermann, D. C. Richter, K. H. Weiss, A. Mehrabi, M. Mieth, T. Bruckner, M. A. Weigand, T. Brenner, A. Heininger
Risk factors for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection relative to two types of control patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Wei-min Zhu, Zhe Yuan, Hong-yu Zhou
Correction to: Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene: a standardized approach to guide education in infection prevention and control
Ermira Tartari, Carolina Fankhauser, Sarah Masson-Roy, Hilda Márquez-Villarreal, Inmaculada Fernández Moreno, Ma Luisa Rodriguez Navas, Odet Sarabia, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Marcela Hernández-de Mezerville, Yew Fong Lee, Mohammad Hassan Aelami, Shaheen Mehtar, Américo Agostinho, Liberato Camilleri, Benedetta Allegranzi, Daniela Pires, Didier Pittet
Mortality associated with carbapenem-susceptible and Verona Integron-encoded Metallo-β-lactamase-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia
Marjolein C. Persoon, Anne F. Voor in’t holt, Cornelia C. H. Wielders, Diederik Gommers, Margreet C. Vos, Juliëtte A. Severin
“Infection prevention and control idea challenge” contest: a fresh view on medical education and problem solving
Arash Arianpoor, Ahmadreza Zarifian, Emran Askari, Arash Akhavan-Rezayat, Mojtaba Dayyani, Amin Rahimian, Elahe Amini, Roya Amel, Aghigh Ziaeemehr, Walter Zingg, Mohammad Hasan Aelami, Didier Pittet
Emojis in public health and how they might be used for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control
Nasim Lotfinejad, Reza Assadi, Mohammad Hassan Aelami, Didier Pittet
Enhanced bactericidal effect of ceftriaxone drug encapsulated in nanostructured lipid carrier against gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria: drug formulation, optimization, and cell culture study
Sahar Ebrahimi, Nafiseh Farhadian, Mohammad Karimi, Mohsen Ebrahimi
The role of hospital environment in transmissions of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms
Po Ying Chia, Sharmila Sengupta, Anjanna Kukreja, Sasheela S.L. Ponnampalavanar, Oon Tek Ng, Kalisvar Marimuthu
Assessment of hand hygiene facilities and staff compliance in a large tertiary health care facility in northern Nigeria: a cross sectional study
Kenneth I. Onyedibe, Nathan Y. Shehu, Daniela Pires, Samson E. Isa, Mark O. Okolo, Simji S. Gomerep, Comfort Ibrahim, Sunday J. Igbanugo, Rachel U. Odesanya, Adebola Olayinka, Daniel Z. Egah, Didier Pittet
Risk factors for fecal carriage of drug-resistant Escherichia coli: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yuan Hu, Yusuke Matsui, Lee W. Riley
Antimicrobial use among adult inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program: 2009 to 2016
Wallis Rudnick, Michelle Science, Daniel J. G. Thirion, Kahina Abdesselam, Kelly B. Choi, Linda Pelude, Kanchana Amaratunga, Jeannette L. Comeau, Bruce Dalton, Johan Delport, Rita Dhami, Joanne Embree, Yannick Émond, Gerald Evans, Charles Frenette, Susan Fryters, Greg German, Jennifer M. Grant, Jennifer Happe, Kevin Katz, Pamela Kibsey, Justin Kosar, Joanne M. Langley, Bonita E. Lee, Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Jerome A. Leis, Allison McGeer, Heather L. Neville, Andrew Simor, Kathryn Slayter, Kathryn N. Suh, Alena Tse-Chang, Karl Weiss, John Conly
Risk perception of antimicrobial resistance by infection control specialists in Europe: a case-vignette study
Gabriel Birgand, Nico T. Mutters, Raheelah Ahmad, Evelina Tacconelli, Jean-Christophe Lucet, Alison Holmes, Angel Asensio, Cagri Buke, Ljiljana Markovic-Denic, Maria da Graca Domingues Rocha, Jan Kluytmans, Outi Lyytikainen, Jonathan A. Otter, Elisabeth Presterl, Aidyn Salmanov, Kirsten Schaffer, Jesús Rodriguez Bano, Vered Schechner, Emese Szilagyi, Athanassios Tsakris
Flies from a tertiary hospital in Rwanda carry multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens including extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing E. coli sequence type 131
Stefan E. Heiden, Mathis S. E. Kurz, Jürgen Bohnert, Claude Bayingana, Jules M. Ndoli, Augustin Sendegeya, Jean Bosco Gahutu, Elias Eger, Frank P. Mockenhaupt, Katharina Schaufler
Effectiveness of a structured, framework-based approach to implementation: the Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) Trial
Lisa Hall, Nicole M. White, Michelle Allen, Alison Farrington, Brett G. Mitchell, Katie Page, Kate Halton, Thomas V. Riley, Christian A. Gericke, Nicholas Graves, Anne Gardner
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae circulating in the Reunion Island, a French territory in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Guillaume Miltgen, Pascal Cholley, Daniel Martak, Michelle Thouverez, Paul Seraphin, Alexandre Leclaire, Nicolas Traversier, Bénédicte Roquebert, Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee, Nathalie Lugagne, Céline Ben Cimon, Mahery Ramiandrisoa, Sandrine Picot, Anne Lignereux, Geoffrey Masson, Jérôme Allyn, Nicolas Allou, Patrick Mavingui, Olivier Belmonte, Xavier Bertrand, Didier Hocquet
Antimicrobial use and resistance in food-producing animals and the environment: an African perspective
Zuhura I. Kimera, Stephen E. Mshana, Mark M. Rweyemamu, Leonard E. G. Mboera, Mecky I. N. Matee
Antibiotic resistance in patients with clinical features of healthcare-associated infections in an urban tertiary hospital in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study
Sulaiman Lakoh, Letian Li, Stephen Sevalie, Xuejun Guo, Olukemi Adekanmbi, Guang Yang, Oladimeji Adebayo, Le Yi, Joshua M. Coker, Shuchao Wang, Tiecheng Wang, Weiyang Sun, Abdulrazaq G. Habib, Eili Y. Klein
Whole-genome sequencing to explore nosocomial transmission and virulence in neonatal methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
Bibi C. G. C. Slingerland, Margreet C. Vos, Willeke Bras, René F. Kornelisse, Dieter De Coninck, Alex van Belkum, Irwin K. M. Reiss, Wil H. F. Goessens, Corné H. W. Klaassen, Nelianne J. Verkaik
The appropriateness of antimicrobial use in the outpatient clinics of three hospitals in the Netherlands
Annemieke K. van den Broek, Reinier M. van Hest, Kamilla D. Lettinga, Afra Jimmink, Fanny N. Lauw, Caroline E. Visser, Jan M. Prins
Prevalence and molecular characterizations of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among patients in pediatric intensive care units in Taiwan
Yu-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Yi-Chuan Huang, Hsin Chi, Chun-Yi Lu, Luan-Yin Chang, Yu-Huai Ho, Chia-Yu Chi, Ching-Chuan Liu, Li-Min Huang, Tien Yu Owen Yang, Yhu-Chering Huang
Infection control link nurse programs in Dutch acute care hospitals; a mixed-methods study
Mireille Dekker, Rosa van Mansfeld, Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Martine de Bruijne, Irene Jongerden
Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains from the endotracheal tubes of patients with nosocomial pneumonia
Roberto Cabrera, Laia Fernández-Barat, Anna Motos, Rubén López-Aladid, Nil Vázquez, Mauro Panigada, Francisco Álvarez-Lerma, Yuly López, Laura Muñoz, Pedro Castro, Jordi Vila, Antoni Torres
Prevalence, risk factors, phenotypic and molecular characteristics for Staphylococcus aureus carriage in community-based drug users in Guangzhou, China
Yingying Wang, Jialing Lin, Junli Zhou, Zhigang Han, Zhenjiang Yao
Oral colonisation by antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria among long-term care facility residents: prevalence, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology
Mi Nguyen-Tra Le, Shizuo Kayama, Mineka Yoshikawa, Toshinori Hara, Seiya Kashiyama, Junzo Hisatsune, Keiko Tsuruda, Makoto Onodera, Hiroki Ohge, Kazuhiro Tsuga, Motoyuki Sugai
Antibiogram and beta-lactamase genes among cefotaxime resistant E. coli from wastewater treatment plant
Anthony Ayodeji Adegoke, Chibuzor Ezinne Madu, Olayinka Ayobami Aiyegoro, Thor Axel Stenström, Anthony Ifeanyi Okoh
The prevalence and molecular mechanisms of mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Shima M. Abdulgader, Tshepiso Lentswe, Andrew Whitelaw, Mae Newton-Foot
Development of amoxicillin resistance in Escherichia coli after exposure to remnants of a non-related phagemid-containing E. coli: an exploratory study
Joep J. J. M. Stohr, Marjolein F. Q. Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Carlo J. M. M. Verhulst, John W. A. Rossen, Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans
Different screening frequencies of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: which one is better?
Ting-Ting Yang, Xue-Ping Luo, Qing Yang, Hong-Chao Chen, Yi Luo, Yan-Min Zhao, Yi-Shan Ye, Xiao-Yu Lai, Jian Yu, Ya-Min Tan, Guo-Qing Wei, He Huang, Ji-Min Shi
Candida tropicalis is the most prevalent yeast species causing candidemia in Algeria: the urgent need for antifungal stewardship and infection control measures
Youcef Megri, Amir Arastehfar, Teun Boekhout, Farnaz Daneshnia, Caroline Hörtnagl, Bettina Sartori, Ahmed Hafez, Weihua Pan, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Boussad Hamrioui
Sustained effects of a multimodal campaign aiming at hand hygiene improvement on compliance and healthcare-associated infections in a large gynaecology/obstetrics tertiary-care centre in Vietnam
Hang Thi Phan, Walter Zingg, Hang Thi Thuy Tran, Anh Pham Phuong Dinh, Didier Pittet
Emerging coexistence of three PMQR genes on a multiple resistance plasmid with a new surrounding genetic structure of qnrS2 in E. coli in China
Ying Tao, Kaixin Zhou, Lianyan Xie, Yanping Xu, Lizhong Han, Yuxing Ni, Jieming Qu, Jingyong Sun
Secular trend analysis of antibiotic utilisation in China’s hospitals 2011–2018, a retrospective analysis of procurement data
Haishaerjiang Wushouer, Yue Zhou, Xi Zhang, Mengyuan Fu, Daiming Fan, Luwen Shi, Xiaodong Guan
“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”: the 5th May 2020 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign
Alexandra Peters, Nasim Lotfinejad, Chloé Guitart, Alice Simniceanu, Maria Clara Padoveze, Tcheun Borzykowski, Benedetta Allegranzi, Didier Pittet
Persuasive antimicrobial stewardship intervention in the context of a KPC outbreak: a controlled interrupted time series analysis
Nuno Rocha-Pereira, Paulo Figueiredo Dias, Sofia Correia, Shirin Shahriari, João Neves, José Teixeira, José Artur Paiva, Carlos Lima Alves, Ana Azevedo
The global prevalence of Daptomycin, Tigecycline, Quinupristin/Dalfopristin, and Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase–negative staphylococci strains: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Aref Shariati, Masoud Dadashi, Zahra Chegini, Alex van Belkum, Mehdi Mirzaii, Seyed Sajjad Khoramrooz, Davood Darban-Sarokhalil
The great nursing brain drain and its effects on patient safety
Alexandra Peters, Rafael Palomo, Didier Pittet
Bacteremia in critical care units at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania: the role of colonization and contaminated cots and mothers’ hands in cross-transmission of multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria
Vitus Silago, Dory Kovacs, Delfina R. Msanga, Jeremiah Seni, Louise Matthews, Katarina Oravcová, Ruth N. Zadoks, Athumani M. Lupindu, Abubakar S. Hoza, Stephen E. Mshana
Correction to: Implementation and impact of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs: a systematic scoping review
D. Donà, E. Barbieri, M. Daverio, R. Lundin, C. Giaquinto, T. Zaoutis, M. Sharland
The potential negative impact of antibiotic pack on antibiotic stewardship in primary care in Switzerland: a modelling study
Julia Füri, Andreas Widmer, Delia Bornand, Christoph Berger, Benedikt Huttner, Julia Anna Bielicki
Clinical impact of endemic NDM-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in intensive care units of the national referral hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia
Yulia Rosa Saharman, Anis Karuniawati, Rudyanto Sedono, Dita Aditianingsih, Wil H. F. Goessens, Corné H. W. Klaassen, Henri A. Verbrugh, Juliëtte A. Severin
Screening for triazole resistance in clinically significant Aspergillus species; report from Pakistan
Safia Moin, Joveria Farooqi, Kauser Jabeen, Sidra Laiq, Afia Zafar
Point-prevalence survey of hospital acquired infections in three acute care hospitals in Northern Nigeria
Usman Abubakar
Outbreak investigation of Serratia marcescens neurosurgical site infections associated with a contaminated shaving razors
Eun Jin Kim, Wan Beom Park, Jung-Ki Yoon, Won-Sang Cho, Su Jung Kim, Young Rok Oh, Kang Il Jun, Chang Kyung Kang, Pyeong Gyun Choe, Jong-Il Kim, Eun Hwa Choi, Myoung Don Oh, Nam Joong Kim
Implementation of the WHO hand hygiene strategy in Faranah regional hospital, Guinea
S. A. Müller, A. O. K. Diallo, R. Wood, M. Bayo, T. Eckmanns, O. Tounkara, M. Arvand, M. Diallo, M. Borchert
Predicting the occurrence of multidrug-resistant organism colonization or infection in ICU patients: development and validation of a novel multivariate prediction model
Li Wang, Xiaolong Huang, Jiating Zhou, Yajing Wang, Weizhang Zhong, Qing Yu, Weiping Wang, Zhiqiao Ye, Qiaoyan Lin, Xing Hong, Ping Zeng, Minwei Zhang
Emergence of β-lactamase- and carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae at integrated fish farms
Dalia Hamza, Sohad Dorgham, Elshaimaa Ismael, Sherein Ismail Abd El-Moez, Mahmoud Elhariri, Rehab Elhelw, Eman Hamza
Rumors and incorrect reports are more deadly than the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
Rostam Jalali, Masoud Mohammadi
Implementing a combined infection prevention and control with antimicrobial stewardship joint program to prevent caesarean section surgical site infections and antimicrobial resistance: a Tanzanian tertiary hospital experience
Elisa Gentilotti, Pasquale De Nardo, Boniface Nguhuni, Alessandro Piscini, Caroline Damian, Francesco Vairo, Zainab Chaula, Paola Mencarini, Peter Torokaa, Alimuddin Zumla, Emanuele Nicastri, Giuseppe Ippolito
In vitro evaluation of double carbapenem and colistin combinations against OXA-48, NDM carbapenemase-producing colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains
Fatma Erdem, Ayham Abulaila, Zerrin Aktas, Oral Oncul
Acquisition of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales during international travel: a systematic review of clinical and microbiological characteristics and meta-analyses of risk factors
Anne F. Voor in ‘t holt, Kees Mourik, Berend Beishuizen, Adriënne S. van der Schoor, Annelies Verbon, Margreet C. Vos, Juliëtte A. Severin
A national survey of public awareness of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria
Emelda E. Chukwu, David A. Oladele, Oluwatoyin B. Awoderu, Ebelechukwu E. Afocha, Rahman G. Lawal, Ismail Abdus-salam, Folasade T. Ogunsola, Rosemary A. Audu
First detection of autochthonous extensively drug-resistant NDM-1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235 from a patient with bloodstream infection in Italy, October 2019
Daniela Loconsole, Marisa Accogli, Monica Monaco, Maria Del Grosso, Anna Lisa De Robertis, Anna Morea, Loredana Capozzi, Laura Del Sambro, Annarosa Simone, Vincenzo De Letteriis, Michele Quarto, Antonio Parisi, Maria Chironna
Early discontinuation of empirical antibiotic treatment in neutropenic patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome
F. A. Niessen, M. S. M. van Mourik, A. H. W. Bruns, R. A. P. Raijmakers, M. C. H. de Groot, T. van der Bruggen
The effect of a 5-year hand hygiene initiative based on the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy: an interrupted time-series study
Yumi Suzuki, Motoko Morino, Ichizo Morita, Shigenori Yamamoto
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of polymicrobial Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections
Cheng Zheng, Shufang Zhang, Qingqing Chen, Li Zhong, Tiancha Huang, Xijiang Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongwei Zhou, Jiachang Cai, Linlin Du, Changming Wang, Wei Cui, Gensheng Zhang
ATP measurement as an objective method to measure environmental contamination in 9 hospitals in the Dutch/Belgian border area
Andreas van Arkel, Ina Willemsen, Linda Kilsdonk-Bode, Sindy Vlamings-Wagenaars, Anne van Oudheusden, Pascal De Waegemaeker, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Martine Verelst, Evelien Maas, Anita van Oosten, Patricia Willemse, Esther van Asselen, Ella Klomp-Berens, Karen Franssen, Elise Van Cauwenberg, Jan Kluytmans, Lieke van Alphen, Nicole van den Braak, Caroline Broucke, Anton Buiting, Liselotte Coorevits, Sara Dequeker, Jeroen Dewulf, Wouter Dhaeze, Bram Diederen, Helen Ewalts, Herman Goossens, Inge Gyssens, Casper den Heijer, Christian Hoebe, Casper Jamin, Patricia Jansingh, Jan Kluytmans, Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Stefanie van Koeveringe, Sien De Koster, Christine Lammens, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Hanna Masson, Ellen Nieuwkoop, Anita van Oosten, Natascha Perales Selva, Merel Postma, Stijn Raven, Veroniek Saegeman, Paul Savelkoul, Annette Schuermans, Nathalie Sleeckx, Krista van der Slikke, Arjan Stegeman, Tijs Tobias, Paulien Tolsma, Jacobien Veenemans, Dewi van der Vegt, Martine Verelst, Carlo Verhulst, Pascal De Waegemaeker, Veronica Weterings, Clementine Wijkmans, Patricia Willemse-Smits, Ina Willemsen
One Health in hospitals: how understanding the dynamics of people, animals, and the hospital built-environment can be used to better inform interventions for antimicrobial-resistant gram-positive infections
Kathryn R. Dalton, Clare Rock, Karen C. Carroll, Meghan F. Davis
Five-year change of prevalence and risk factors for infection and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary hospital in North China
Yuanyuan Li, Jihong Li, Tong Hu, Jia Hu, Ning Song, Yu Zhang, Yuan Chen
Impact of hand hygiene intervention: a comparative study in health care facilities in Dodoma region, Tanzania using WHO methodology
Karin Wiedenmayer, Vicky-Sidney Msamba, Fiona Chilunda, James Charles Kiologwe, Jeremiah Seni
Challenges regarding the control of environmental sources of contamination in healthcare settings in low-and middle-income countries - a narrative review
Folasade T. Ogunsola, Shaheen Mehtar
Prevalence of Candida auris in Canadian acute care hospitals among at-risk patients, 2018
Hector Felipe Garcia-Jeldes, Robyn Mitchell, Allison McGeer, Wallis Rudnick, Kanchana Amaratunga, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Shawn R. Lockhart, Ghada Al-Rawahi, Elizabeth Brodkin, Marthe Charles, Jeannette Comeau, Ian Davis, Johan Delport, Tanis C. Dingle, Philippe Dufresne, Chelsey Ellis, Joanne Embree, Charles Frenette, George Golding, Linda M. Hoang, Susy Hota, Kevin C. Katz, Pamela Kibsey, Julianne V. Kus, Joanne M. Langley, Bonita E. Lee, Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Yves Longtin, Kathy Malejczyk, Shazia Masud, Dominik Mertz, Michael R. Mulvey, Susan Poutanen, Dale Purych, Rajni Rantelidis, David Richardson, Ilan S. Schwartz, Stephanie Smith, Maxime-Antoine Tremblay, Titus Wong, Deborah Yamamura, Amrita Bharat
Will healthcare workers improve infection prevention and control behaviors as COVID-19 risk emerges and increases, in China?
Xiaoquan Lai, Xuemei Wang, Qiuxia Yang, Xiaojun Xu, Yuqing Tang, Chenxi Liu, Li Tan, Ruying Lai, He Wang, Xinping Zhang, Qian Zhou, Hao Chen
Prevention of severe infectious complications after colorectal surgery using oral non-absorbable antimicrobial prophylaxis: results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial
Tessa Mulder, Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Bart Vlaminckx, Daphne Roos, Anne Marie de Smet, Robert de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel, Paul Verheijen, Alexandra Brandt, Anke Smits, Eric van der Vorm, Erik Bathoorn, Boudewijn van Etten, Jacobien Veenemans, Annemarie Weersink, Margreet Vos, Nils van ’t Veer, Stavros Nikolakopoulos, Marc Bonten, Jan Kluytmans
Hand hygiene in surgery in Benin: opportunities and challenges
Carine Laurence Yehouenou, Angèle Modupe Dohou, Ariane Dessièdé Fiogbe, Marius Esse, Cyriaque Degbey, Anne Simon, Olivia Dalleur
Effect of extended use N95 respirators and eye protection on personal protective equipment (PPE) utilization during SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Singapore
Glorijoy Shi En Tan, Kyaw Zaw Linn, Margaret Mei Ling Soon, Shawn Vasoo, Monica Chan, Bee Fong Poh, Oon-Tek Ng, Brenda Sze-Peng Ang, Yee-Sin Leo, Kalisvar Marimuthu
A silent outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit
Ronella Marom, Dror Mandel, Alon Haham, Irit Berger, Amit Ovental, Craig Raskind, Galia Grisaru-Soen, Amos Adler, Jonathan Lellouche, David Schwartz, Yehuda Carmeli, Vered Schechner
Proposal for a EN 149 acceptable reprocessing method for FFP2 respirators in times of severe shortage
Andreas F. Widmer, Gilles Richner
The epidemiology of carbapenem-non-susceptible Acinetobacter species in Europe: analysis of EARS-Net data from 2013 to 2017
Olaniyi Ayobami, Niklas Willrich, Beneditta Suwono, Tim Eckmanns, Robby Markwart
Critical Reliability Issues of Common Type Alcohol-Based Handrub Dispensers
Száva Bánsághi, Hervé Soule, Chloé Guitart, Didier Pittet, Tamás Haidegger
Successful control of the first carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak in a Chinese hospital 2017–2019
Jiaying Zhu, Qi Li, Xiaoxia Li, Jianbang Kang, Yan Song, Junli Song, Donghong Yin, Jinju Duan
Evaluating infection prevention and control programs in Austrian acute care hospitals using the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework
Seven Johannes Sam Aghdassi, Andrea Grisold, Agnes Wechsler-Fördös, Sonja Hansen, Peter Bischoff, Michael Behnke, Petra Gastmeier
Poor infection prevention and control standards are associated with environmental contamination with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales and other multidrug-resistant bacteria in Swiss companion animal clinics
Janne S. Schmidt, Stefan P. Kuster, Aurélien Nigg, Valentina Dazio, Michael Brilhante, Helene Rohrbach, Odette J. Bernasconi, Thomas Büdel, Edgar I. Campos-Madueno, Stefanie Gobeli Brawand, Simone Schuller, Andrea Endimiani, Vincent Perreten, Barbara Willi
First report of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mcr-8.1 gene from a clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from Lebanon
Tamara Salloum, Balig Panossian, Ibrahim Bitar, Jaroslav Hrabak, George F. Araj, Sima Tokajian
The impact of antimicrobial stewardship program implementation at four tertiary private hospitals: results of a five-years pre-post analysis
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The first nationwide multicenter study of Acinetobacter baumannii recovered in Serbia: emergence of OXA-72, OXA-23 and NDM-1-producing isolates
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A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance
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The 2017 global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in Canadian hospitals
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A population-base survey on knowledge, attitude and awareness of the general public on antibiotic use and resistance
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Recommendations for the surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria in Italian long-term care facilities by the GLISTer working group of the Italian Association of Clinical Microbiologists (AMCLI)
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Gut microbiome signatures of nursing home residents carrying Enterobacteria producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases
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The effect of temporary closure and enhanced terminal disinfection using aerosolized hydrogen peroxide of an open-bay intensive care unit on the acquisition of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
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Healthcare workers’ perspectives on healthcare-associated infections and infection control practices: a video-reflexive ethnography study in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia
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The rapid and visual detection of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification linked to a nanoparticle-based lateral flow biosensor
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Molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from four teaching hospitals in Iran: the emergence of novel MRSA clones
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Severe recurrent Streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis in a pregnant woman, and review of the literature
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Scope of a weekly infection control team rounding in an acute-care teaching hospital: a pilot study
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Development of in vitro resistance to fluoroquinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Enterococcus faecium: from microbiological insights to practical recommendations for infection control and diagnostics
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CRISPR-Cas system: a potential alternative tool to cope antibiotic resistance
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Predictive factors for sepsis by carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacilli in adult critical patients in Rio de Janeiro: a case-case-control design in a prospective cohort study
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A seven-year surveillance study of the epidemiology, antifungal susceptibility, risk factors and mortality of candidaemia among paediatric and adult inpatients in a tertiary teaching hospital in China
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A rapid model for developing dry surface biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa for in vitro disinfectant efficacy testing
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Prevalence of fosfomycin resistance and gene mutations in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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Infection prevention knowledge, practice, and its associated factors among healthcare providers in primary healthcare unit of Wogdie District, Northeast Ethiopia, 2019: a cross-sectional study
Jemal Assefa, Gedefaw Diress Alen, Seteamlak Adane
Estimating length of stay and inpatient charges attributable to hospital-acquired bloodstream infections
Yuzheng Zhang, Mingmei Du, Janice Mary Johnston, Ellie Bostwick Andres, Jijiang Suo, Hongwu Yao, Rui Huo, Yunxi Liu, Qiang Fu
Azithromycin resistant gonococci: a literature review
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Hand hygiene improvement or antibiotic restriction to control the household transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli: a mathematical modelling study
Lidia Kardaś-Słoma, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Anne Perozziello, Jean-Ralph Zahar, François-Xavier Lescure, Anthony Cousien, Jean-Christophe Lucet
Correction to: High rate of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative infections and associated mortality in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Cross-contamination by disinfectant towelettes varies by product chemistry and strain
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Infection prevention and control research priorities: what do we need to combat healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance? Results of a narrative literature review and survey analysis
Yohann Lacotte, Christine Årdal, Marie-Cécile Ploy
First case of Dolutegravir and Darunavir/r multi drug-resistant HIV-1 in Cameroon following exposure to Raltegravir: lessons and implications in the era of transition to Dolutegravir-based regimens
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Sepsis related mortality of extremely low gestational age newborns after the introduction of colonization screening for multi-drug resistant organisms
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Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries
Linzy Elton, Margaret J. Thomason, John Tembo, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan, Srinivas Reddy Pallerla, Liã Bárbara Arruda, Francesco Vairo, Chiara Montaldo, Francine Ntoumi, Muzamil M. Abdel Hamid, Najmul Haider, Richard Kock, Giuseppe Ippolito, Alimuddin Zumla, Timothy D. McHugh
Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use among inpatients in a tertiary hospital in Fiji: a point prevalence survey
M. J. Loftus, S. J. Curtis, R. Naidu, A. C. Cheng, A. W. J. Jenney, B. G. Mitchell, P. L. Russo, E. Rafai, A. Y. Peleg, A. J. Stewardson
Using an ultraviolet cabinet improves compliance with the World Health Organization’s hand hygiene recommendations by undergraduate medical students: a randomized controlled trial
Sandrine Dray, Samuel Lehingue, Sabine Valera, Philippe Nouguier, Michel Salah Boussen, Florence Daviet, Delphine Bastian, Estelle Pilarczik, Isabelle Jousset, Sébastien Le Floch, Georgette Grech, Georges Leonetti, Laurent Papazian, Nadim Cassir, Jean-Marie Forel
A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design comparison between COVID-19 infection control guidelines’ applicability and their protective value as perceived by Israeli healthcare workers, and healthcare executives’ response
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Ricky Cohen, Nour Abed Elhadi Shahbari, Rana Hijazi
Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use in three hospitals in North-Eastern Tanzania
Pius G. Horumpende, Stephen E. Mshana, Elise F. Mouw, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Jaffu O. Chilongola, Quirijn de Mast
Parental self-medication with antibiotics for children promotes antibiotic over-prescribing in clinical settings in China
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Correction to: Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
John Conly, W. H. Seto, Didier Pittet, Alison Holmes, May Chu, Paul R. Hunter
Silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) – a novel surrogate tracer for microbial transmission in healthcare
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Etiology and antimicrobial resistance of secondary bacterial infections in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective analysis
Jie Li, Junwei Wang, Yi Yang, Peishan Cai, Jingchao Cao, Xuefeng Cai, Yu Zhang
A nosocomial cluster of vancomycin resistant enterococci among COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit
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Epidemiology and risk factors of rectal colonization of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae among high-risk patients from ICU and HSCT wards in a university hospital
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Increasing use of linezolid in a tertiary NICU during a 10-year period: reasons and concerns for the future
Lucie Matrat, Frank Plaisant, Christine Barreto, Olivier Claris, Marine Butin
Impact of national policy on hand hygiene promotion activities in hospitals in Korea
Pyoeng Gyun Choe, Jihee Lim, Eun Jin Kim, Jeong Hee Kim, Myoung Jin Shin, Sung Ran Kim, Jun Yong Choi, Young Hwa Choi, Kyung Won Lee, Hyunsook Koo, Hyungmin Lee, Kyoung-Ho Song, Eu Suk Kim, Nam Joong Kim, Myoung-don Oh, Hong Bin Kim
Antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile derived from humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mohammad Sholeh, Marcela Krutova, Mehdi Forouzesh, Sergey Mironov, Nourkhoda Sadeghifard, Leila Molaeipour, Abbas Maleki, Ebrahim Kouhsari
Effects of restrictive-prescribing stewardship on antibiotic consumption in primary care in China: an interrupted time series analysis, 2012–2017
Xuemei Wang, Yuqing Tang, Chenxi Liu, Junjie Liu, Youwen Cui, Xinping Zhang
Influence of severity of infection on the effect of appropriate antimicrobial therapy for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremic pneumonia
Fang-Yu Kang, Chorng-Kuang How, Yung-Chih Wang, Aristine Cheng, Ya-Sung Yang, Shu-Chen Kuo, Chang-Pan Liu, Yuag-Meng Liu, Te-Li Chen, Yi-Tzu Lee
The prevalence and mechanism of triclosan resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from urine samples in Wenzhou, China
Weiliang Zeng, Wenya Xu, Ye Xu, Wenli Liao, Yajie Zhao, Xiangkuo Zheng, Chunquan Xu, Tieli Zhou, Jianming Cao
Biofilm exacerbates antibiotic resistance: Is this a current oversight in antimicrobial stewardship?
Philip Bowler, Christine Murphy, Randall Wolcott
Colonization of a hand washing sink in a veterinary hospital by an Enterobacter hormaechei strain carrying multiple resistances to high importance antimicrobials
Kanishka Kamathewatta, Rhys Bushell, Fannana Rafa, Glenn Browning, Helen Billman-Jacobe, Marc Marenda
Antibiotic appropriateness and adherence to local guidelines in perioperative prophylaxis: results from an antimicrobial stewardship intervention
Francesco Vladimiro Segala, Rita Murri, Eleonora Taddei, Francesca Giovannenze, Pierluigi Del Vecchio, Emanuela Birocchi, Francesco Taccari, Roberto Cauda, Massimo Fantoni
Nosocomial tuberculosis transmission from 2006 to 2018 in Beijing Chest Hospital, China
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Global trends of antimicrobial susceptibility to ceftaroline and ceftazidime–avibactam: a surveillance study from the ATLAS program (2012–2016)
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Contamination of SARS-CoV-2 in patient surroundings and on personal protective equipment in a non-ICU isolation ward for COVID-19 patients with prolonged PCR positive status
Li Wei, Wenzhi Huang, Xiaojun Lu, Yantong Wang, Linzhi Cheng, Rong Deng, Haiyan Long, Zhiyong Zong
Detection of CMY-type beta-lactamases in Escherichia coli isolates from paediatric patients in a tertiary care hospital in Mexico
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Multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae in coastal water: an emerging threat
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β-lactamase-mediated resistance in MDR-Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Qatar
Mazen A. Sid Ahmed, Faisal Ahmad Khan, Ali A. Sultan, Bo Söderquist, Emad Bashir Ibrahim, Jana Jass, Ali S. Omrani
Risk prediction models to guide antibiotic prescribing: a study on adult patients with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections in an emergency department
Joshua Guoxian Wong, Aung-Hein Aung, Weixiang Lian, David Chien Lye, Chee-Kheong Ooi, Angela Chow
Does the problem begin at the beginning? Medical students’ knowledge and beliefs regarding antibiotics and resistance: a systematic review
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Evaluating antimicrobial appropriateness in a tertiary care pediatric ICU in Saudi Arabia: a retrospective cohort study
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Association of sexually-transmitted infection and African–American race with Streptococcus agalactiae colonization in pregnancy
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Carriage of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria by flies captured in a hospital and its suburban surroundings in Ethiopia
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Disinfectant wipes transfer Clostridioides difficile spores from contaminated surfaces to uncontaminated surfaces during the disinfection process
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Fluoroquinolone resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from healthy conjunctiva and analysis of their mutations in quinolone-resistance determining region
Jung Youb Kang, Woonhyoung Lee, Gwang Myeong Noh, Bo Hyun Jeong, Indal Park, Sang Joon Lee
A decade of antimicrobial resistance research in social science fields: a scientometric review
Jiahui Lu, Anita Sheldenkar, May Oo Lwin
COVID-19: through the eyes through the front line, an international perspective
Kevin T. Kavanagh, Judith Pare, Christine Pontus
Donor-derived vancomycin-resistant enterococci transmission and bloodstream infection after intestinal transplantation
Carlos L. Correa-Martínez, Felix Becker, Vera Schwierzeck, Alexander Mellmann, Jens G. Brockmann, Stefanie Kampmeier
Antimicrobial use in food animals and human health: time to implement ‘One Health’ approach
Sunil Pokharel, Priyanka Shrestha, Bipin Adhikari
The carbapenem resistance gene blaOXA-23 is disseminated by a conjugative plasmid containing the novel transposon Tn6681 in Acinetobacter johnsonii M19
Gongli Zong, Chuanqing Zhong, Jiafang Fu, Yu Zhang, Peipei Zhang, Wenchi Zhang, Yan Xu, Guangxiang Cao, Rongzhen Zhang
Education and training programmes for infection prevention and control professionals: mapping the current opportunities and local needs in European countries
Constantinos Tsioutis, Gabriel Birgand, Erik Bathoorn, Aleksander Deptula, Lenny ten Horn, Enrique Castro-Sánchez, Oana Săndulescu, Andreas F. Widmer, Athanasios Tsakris, Giulio Pieve, Evelina Tacconelli, Nico T. Mutters
Artemether–lumefantrin treatment adherence among uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria patients, visiting public health facilities in AsgedeTsimbla district, Tigray, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Mekonnen Gebremichael Gebrekidan, Gebretsadik Berhe Gebremedhin, Yosef Sibhatu Gebregiorgis, Alefech Addisu Gezehegn, Kissanet Tesfay Weldearegay
Impact of an e-learning module on personal protective equipment knowledge in student paramedics: a randomized controlled trial
Laurent Suppan, Loric Stuby, Birgit Gartner, Robert Larribau, Anne Iten, Mohamed Abbas, Stephan Harbarth, Mélanie Suppan
Prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections: a survey of ICU nurses’ knowledge and practice in China
Xiuwen Chi, Juan Guo, Xiaofeng Niu, Ru He, Lijuan Wu, Hong Xu
A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance
Chantal M. Morel, Richard A. Alm, Christine Årdal, Alessandra Bandera, Giacomo M. Bruno, Elena Carrara, Giorgio L. Colombo, Marlieke E. A. de Kraker, Sabiha Essack, Isabel Frost, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Herman Goossens, Luca Guardabassi, Stephan Harbarth, Peter S. Jørgensen, Souha S. Kanj, Tomislav Kostyanev, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Finola Leonard, Gabriel Levy Hara, Marc Mendelson, Malgorzata Mikulska, Nico T. Mutters, Kevin Outterson, Jesus Rodriguez Baňo, Evelina Tacconelli, Luigia Scudeller
Efficacy of universal preoperative decolonization with Polyhexanide in primary joint arthroplasty on surgical site infections. A multicenter before-and after-study
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Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection and colonization: the impact of insertion site and distribution of multidrug-resistant pathogens
Vassiliki Pitiriga, Petros Kanellopoulos, Ioannis Bakalis, Elsa Kampos, Ioannis Sagris, George Saroglou, Athanasios Tsakris
Why psychiatry is different - challenges and difficulties in managing a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospital care
J. J. E. Rovers, L. S. van de Linde, N. Kenters, E. M. Bisseling, D. F. Nieuwenhuijse, B. B. Oude Munnink, A. Voss, M. Nabuurs-Franssen
Does respiratory co-infection facilitate dispersal of SARS-CoV-2? investigation of a super-spreading event in an open-space office
Dana Weissberg, Jürg Böni, Silvana K. Rampini, Verena Kufner, Maryam Zaheri, Peter W. Schreiber, Irene A. Abela, Michael Huber, Hugo Sax, Aline Wolfensberger
SARS-Coronavirus-2 cases in healthcare workers may not regularly originate from patient care: lessons from a university hospital on the underestimated risk of healthcare worker to healthcare worker transmission
Sandra Schneider, Brar Piening, Pauline Assina Nouri-Pasovsky, Anne Caroline Krüger, Petra Gastmeier, Seven Johannes Sam Aghdassi
Burden of carbapenem non-susceptible infections in high-risk patients: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Esther E. Avendano, Gowri Raman, Jeffrey Chan, Eilish McCann
Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antimicrobial use and resistance among communities of Ilala, Kilosa and Kibaha districts of Tanzania
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