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Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:51
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Teaching prudent antibiotic use on the go: a descriptive report on development, utilization and listener satisfaction of an educational podcast format for medical students and young professionals
An important component in fostering the responsible use of antibiotics is training of new and future prescribers in this interdisciplinary topic. Because podcasts are playing an increasing role in medical educ...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:50 -
Rinse, gel, and foam – is there any evidence for a difference in their effectiveness in preventing infections?
Following publication of the 2009 World Health Organizations Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care, a debate has emerged regarding the relative antimicrobial efficacy of the different formats (rinse, gel,...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:49 -
Impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial stewardship activities in Italy: a region-wide assessment
In the region of Piedmont, in Northern Italy, formal monitoring of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs has been in place since 2012. The objective of our study was to provide an updated assessment of AMS ...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:48 -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of Latin American healthcare workers relating to antibiotic stewardship and antibiotic use: a cross-sectional multi-country study
The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Latin America is high. Little is known about healthcare workers’ (HCWs) knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of antimicrobial stewardship (AS), AMR, and antibio...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:47 -
Development of a risk prediction model for subsequent infection after colonization with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales: a retrospective cohort study
Colonization of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterale (CRE) is considered as one of vital preconditions for infection, with corresponding high morbidity and mortality. It is important to construct a reliable predi...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:46 -
Ten years of hand hygiene excellence: a summary of outcomes, and a comparison of indicators, from award-winning hospitals worldwide
Hand hygiene is a crucial measure for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The Hand Hygiene Excellence Award (HHEA) is an international programme acknowledging healthcare facilities for t...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:45 -
Knowledge, awareness, and risk practices related to bacterial contamination of antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products among healthcare workers in sub-saharan Africa: a cross-sectional survey in three tertiary care hospitals (Benin, Burkina Faso, and DR Congo)
Antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products can be contaminated with bacteria and cause healthcare-associated infections, which are underreported from low- and middle-income countries. To better unde...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:44 -
Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program for urinary tract infections in long-term care facilities: a cluster-controlled intervention study
Widespread inappropriate use of antimicrobial substances drives resistance development worldwide. In long-term care facilities (LTCF), antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications. More tha...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:43 -
Development and validation of machine learning-based models for predicting healthcare-associated bacterial/fungal infections among COVID-19 inpatients: a retrospective cohort study
COVID-19 and bacterial/fungal coinfections have posed significant challenges to human health. However, there is a lack of good tools for predicting coinfection risk to aid clinical work.
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:42 -
World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to “bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in health care to contribute to a reduction in health care-...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:41 -
Pseudomonas fluorescens CRBSI outbreak: complying with the standardization of invasive procedures is a step ahead in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
In the healthcare sector, the implementation of standardized procedures, such as those commonly employed in franchises to ensure consistent quality, remains underprioritized. Within this framework, we focus on...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:40 -
Level of implementation of multimodal strategies for infection prevention and control interventions and prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Northern Italy
In November 2022, Italy participated in the third edition of the European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in acute-care...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:39 -
Surveillance of catheter-associated bloodstream infections: development and validation of a fully automated algorithm
Most surveillance systems for catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are based on manual chart review. Our objective was to validate a fully...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:38 -
Prevalence of meropenem-resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta‑analysis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health concern, particularly pronounced in low-resource settings. In Ethiopia, the escalating prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeru...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:37 -
Assessing the impact of a cleaning programme on environmental hygiene in labour and neonatal wards: an exploratory study in The Gambia
Effective surface cleaning in hospitals is crucial to prevent the transmission of pathogens. However, hospitals in low- and middle-income countries face cleaning challenges due to limited resources and inadequ...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:36 -
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation
Antimicrobial stewardship (ASP) is considered a key prevention strategy in addressing the worldwide concern of accelerating antimicrobial resistance. Limited research is available regarding healthcare provider...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:35 -
Assessing the potential for improved predictive capacity of antimicrobial resistance in outpatient Staphylococcus aureus isolates using seasonal and spatial antibiograms
While the use of cumulative susceptibility reports, antibiograms, is recommended for improved empiric therapy and antibiotic stewardship, the predictive ability of antibiograms has not been well-studied. While...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:34 -
Correction: Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:33 -
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Standard Precautions (SPs) are the minimal infection prevention and control (IPC) measures that apply to all patient care activities at all times, regardless of whether the patient has a suspected or proven di...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:32 -
Uncovering the spread of drug-resistant bacteria through next-generation sequencing based surveillance: transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales by a contaminated duodenoscope
Contamination of duodenoscopes is a significant concern due to the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) among patients who undergo endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), result...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:31 -
Automated surveillance of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP): a systematic literature review
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and its specific subset, non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP) are significant contributors to patient morbidity and mortality. Automated surveillance systems for...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:30 -
Resident-, prescriber-, and facility-level factors associated with antibiotic use in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of quantitative studies
Antimicrobial stewardship programmes are needed in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to tackle antimicrobial resistance. We aimed to identify factors associated with antibiotic use in LTCFs. Such information w...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:29 -
Emergence and clonal expansion of Aeromonas hydrophila ST1172 that simultaneously produces MOX-13 and OXA-724
Aeromonas hydrophila infections can cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea; however, deep infections are rarely reported. Outbreaks of A. hydrophila are reported more frequently in fish, poultry, and sn...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:28 -
Comparison of disease and economic burden between MRSA infection and MRSA colonization in a university hospital: a retrospective data integration study
Although there is a growing concern and policy regarding infections or colonization caused by resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the prognosis of MRSA infections com...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:27 -
Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pose threats to global health. Effective hand hygiene is essential for preventing HAIs and the spread of AMR in healthcare. We aimed t...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:26 -
Systematic scoping review of automated systems for the surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections related to intravascular catheters
Intravascular catheters are crucial devices in medical practice that increase the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), and related health-economic adverse outcomes. This scoping review aims to prov...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:25 -
Prevalence of colistin resistance in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The development of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii during treatment has been identified in certain patients, often leading to prolonged or recurrent infections. As colistin, is the last line of the...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:24 -
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study
The application of hand hygiene (HH) and the use of non-sterile gloves (NSG) in daily care is highly intertwined. We aimed (1) to assess the combined application of HH and NSG among nurses and (2) to explore d...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:23 -
The prevalence and clinical context of antimicrobial resistance amongst medical inpatients at a referral hospital in Rwanda: a cohort study
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global concern. AMR surveillance is a crucial component of the international response; however, passive surveillance of laboratory data is limited without correspon...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:22 -
Prevalence, regional distribution, and trends of antimicrobial resistance among female outpatients with urine Klebsiella spp. isolates: a multicenter evaluation in the United States between 2011 and 2019
Antimicrobial resistance research in uncomplicated urinary tract infection typically focuses on the main causative pathogen, Escherichia coli; however, little is known about the antimicrobial resistance burden of...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:21 -
Introduction and spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) at a German tertiary care medical center from 2004 until 2010: a retrospective whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of the molecular epidemiology of VREfm
In most of Europe and especially in Germany, there is currently a concerning rise in the number of hospital-acquired infections due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm). Therefore, there is a need...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:20 -
Closing the antimicrobial stewardship gap - a call for LMICs to embrace the global antimicrobial stewardship accreditation scheme
The escalating challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a considerable concern for global health, particularly impacting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This article highlights the critical ...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:19 -
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia
To carry out a whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based investigation on the emergence and spread of the largest multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) outbreak that has been thriving among HIV-negative patients...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:18 -
Hip prosthesis and colon surgery, a decade of surveillance on surgical site infections in Italy, a prospective cohort study: rates, trends, and disease burden in DALYs
Surveillance programs are a key element of interventions aiming to reduce rates of surgical site infections (SSIs). The aim of this study was to evaluate rates and trends of SSIs following hip arthroplasty and...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:17 -
Challenges and success stories of the implementation of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship strategies: proceedings of the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety, 2023
The 5th edition of the Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety was held in Montreux, Switzerland, in February 2023, delayed by three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The overarching theme of the summit ...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:16 -
The accuracy of fully-automated algorithms for the surveillance of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection in hospitalised patients
Continuous surveillance for healthcare-associated infections such as central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections (CVC-BSI) is crucial for prevention. However, traditional surveillance methods are re...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:15 -
Clinically relevant sequence types of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae detected in Finnish wastewater in 2021–2022
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical threat to human health. Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae are clinically the most important species associated with AMR and are the most common carbapenemase-...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:14 -
Perinatal colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: a hospital-based cohort study
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat that contributes to substantial neonatal mortality. Bangladesh has reported some of the highest rates of AMR among bacteria causing neonatal sep...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:13 -
Health system barriers to the implementation of the national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam: a scoping review
Vietnam is among 11 countries in the Western Pacific region that has developed a National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance (NAPCA).
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:12 -
Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals in Greece, 2022; results of the third point prevalence survey
The burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the extent of antimicrobial use (AU) are periodically recorded through Point Prevalence Surveys (PPS) in acute care hospitals coordinated by the Europe...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:11 -
Incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections by Gram-negative bacilli and their ESBL and carbapenemase production in specialized hospitals of Bahir Dar, northwest Ethiopia
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) is a common concern globally. Investigating the incidence of CAUTI and associated antibiotic resista...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:10 -
Reported antibiotic use among patients in the multicenter ANDEMIA infectious diseases surveillance study in sub-saharan Africa
Exposure to antibiotics has been shown to be one of the drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and is critical to address when planning and implementing strategies for combatting AMR. However, data on antib...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:9 -
Barriers, facilitators, perceptions and impact of interventions in implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals of low-middle and middle countries: a scoping review
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are pivotal components of the World Health Organization's Global Action Plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). ASPs advocate rational antibiotic usage to enhan...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:8 -
Hand hygiene compliance in a Brazilian COVID-19 unit: the impact of moments and contact precautions
Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications during hospitalization. These infections increase morbidity and mortality and they increase length of hospital stay and the cost of heal...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:7 -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards community-acquired pneumonia and COVID-19 among general population: a cross-sectional study
This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the general population to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and COVID-19.
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:6 -
Efficacy of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for early adaptation of antibiotic therapy in high-risk neutropenic patients
The 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia recommends early adaptation of empirical antibiotic therapy (EAT) for febrile neutropenia in stable patients.
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:5 -
Implementation of the WHO core components of an infection prevention and control programme in two sub-saharan African acute health-care facilities: a mixed methods study
The coronavirus pandemic again highlighted the need for robust health care facility infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes. WHO guidelines on the core components (CCs) of IPC programmes provides gui...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:4 -
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso
The laboratory-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a priority component of the multisectoral national action plan to combat AMR in Burkina Faso. This study aimed to assess the QMS of microb...
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:3 -
Investigating environmental transmission to resolve a Bacillus cereus group outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit using core genome multilocus sequence typing
We analyzed an outbreak of Bacillus cereus group (Bcg) at a single-center neonatal intensive care unit level IV by conducting comprehensive sampling of both patients and the environment.
Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2024 13:1