Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Featured Article - Diversity or Clonality in carbapenem-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used to investigate outbreaks of multidrug-resistant microorganisms. Bogaty et al. present a study where they analyzed an outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii with both pulsed-field electrophoresis and WGS, finding a number of similarities and major differences between the two typing methods. The chain of transmission deduced with each method, however, showed a high degree of concordance. The results suggest that, if performed in real time, WGS may be of practical value in case finding and in hypothesis generation regarding transmission.

Content type: Research
| 7 December 2018

Alarming levels of antimicrobial resistance among sepsis patients admitted to ICU in a tertiary care hospital in India - a case control retrospective study

Authors: D. Nagarjuna, Gajanand Mittal, Rakesh Singh Dhanda, Rajni Gaind and Manisha Yadav
Content type: Research
| 4 December 2018

Attitude and perception of medical interns about antimicrobial resistance: a multi center cross-sectional study in Ethiopia

Authors: Amanual Getnet Mersha
Content type: Research
| 29 November 2018

Large variations in the practice patterns of surgical antiseptic preparation solutions in patients with open and closed extremity fractures: a cross-sectional survey

Authors: Maria Jurado-Ruiz, Gerard P. Slobogean, Sofia Bzovsky, Alisha Garibaldi, Nathan N. O’Hara, Andrea Howe, Brad Petrisor and Sheila Sprague
Content type: Research
| 29 November 2018

Costs of outpatient and inpatient MRSA screening and treatment strategies for patients at elective hospital admission - a decision tree analysis

Authors: Luise Hutzschenreuter, Steffen Flessa, Kathleen Dittmann and Nils-Olaf Hübner
Content type: Research
| 29 November 2018

Travel to Asia is a strong predictor for carriage of cephalosporin resistant E. coli and Klebsiella spp. but does not explain everything; prevalence study at a Norwegian hospital 2014–2016

Authors: Laura Espenhain, Silje Bakken Jørgensen, Truls Michael Leegaard, Michaela Marie Lelek, Siri Haug Hänsgen, Britt Nakstad, Marianne Sunde and Martin Steinbakk

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Content type: Review
| 25 July 2014

Catheter associated urinary tract infections

Authors: Lindsay E Nicolle
Content type: Editorial
| 14 February 2012

Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action

Authors: Jean Carlet, Vincent Jarlier, Stephan Harbarth, Andreas Voss, Herman Goossens and Didier Pittet
Content type: Meeting abstracts
| 15 June 2017

Meeting abstracts from International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC 2017)

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Content type: Commentary
| 18 November 2013

Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum

Authors: Angela Huttner, Stephan Harbarth, Jean Carlet, Sara Cosgrove, Herman Goossens, Alison Holmes, Vincent Jarlier, Andreas Voss and Didier Pittet
Content type: Research
| 26 March 2013

Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey

Authors: Marie-Laurence Lambert, Mercedes Palomar, Antonella Agodi, Michael Hiesmayr, Alain Lepape, Anne Ingenbleek, Eduardo Palencia Herrejon, Stijn Blot and Uwe Frank

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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control is a global forum for all those working on the prevention, diagnostic and treatment of health-care associated infections and antimicrobial resistance development in all health-care settings. The journal covers a broad spectrum of preeminent practices and best available data to the top interventional and translational research, and innovative developments in the field of infection control.

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Dr Vandenbroucke-Grauls is professor of Medical Microbiology at the VU University (Amsterdam), The Netherlands. She holds an MD from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD from the Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands). She also holds a degree in Epidemiology (PhD equivalent) from the Dutch Society for Epidemiology. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).

Professor Vandenbroucke-Grauls is head of Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Control at the VU University Medical Center. For over ten years she served as chair of the Dutch Working Party on Infection Control. She also served in several professional boards and national and international scientific committees. Her main work interest is in infection control and antimicrobial resistant pathogens (MRSA and ESBL- and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in particular).

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Featured Article - Diversity or Clonality in carbapenem-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii

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Alarming levels of antimicrobial resistance among sepsis patients admitted to ICU in a tertiary care hospital in India - a case control retrospective study

Attitude and perception of medical interns about antimicrobial resistance: a multi center cross-sectional study in Ethiopia

Large variations in the practice patterns of surgical antiseptic preparation solutions in patients with open and closed extremity fractures: a cross-sectional survey

Costs of outpatient and inpatient MRSA screening and treatment strategies for patients at elective hospital admission - a decision tree analysis

Travel to Asia is a strong predictor for carriage of cephalosporin resistant E. coli and Klebsiella spp. but does not explain everything; prevalence study at a Norwegian hospital 2014–2016

Catheter associated urinary tract infections

Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action

Meeting abstracts from International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC 2017)

Antimicrobial resistance: a global view from the 2013 World Healthcare-Associated Infections Forum

Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey

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Expedited Peer Review

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Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control

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Cheap and slow (culture) is usually better than fast and expensive (PCR) for CPE screening: Bertha says so!

A Reflection from HIS 2018: What is the main driver for C. difficile infection? Antibiotics or C. difficile acquisition?

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