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Hand hygiene (HH) is an essential component for preventing and controlling of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), whereas compliance with HH among health care workers (HCWs) is frequently poor. This study a...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:98
Published on: 20 September 2017
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To determine the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and related presence of mutations in quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) genes and plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) among
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:97
Published on: 19 September 2017
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are among the most common antimicrobial-resistant pathogens causing nosocomial infections. Although antibiotic use has been identified as a risk factor for VRE, it remain...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:95
Published on: 13 September 2017
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Surgical hand preparation is an essential part of modern surgery. Both alcohol-based and antiseptic detergent-based hand preparation are recommended practices, with a trend towards use of alcohol based handrub...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:96
Published on: 13 September 2017
Letter to the Editor
We characterised 227 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from retail food and food handlers’ gloves samples obtained through food surveillance and risk assessment studies between 2011 and 2014. Of 227 isolates, five (...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:94
Published on: 8 September 2017
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Fusarium species are widely spread in nature as plant pathogens but are also able to cause opportunistic fungal infections in humans. We report a cluster of Fusarium oxysporum bloodstr...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:93
Published on: 7 September 2017
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The widespread presence of antibiotics resistance genes in pathogenic bacteria can cause enormous problems. Food animals are one of the main reservoirs of intestinal pathogens that pose a potential risk to hum...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:92
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Mcr-1-harboring Enterobacteriaceae are reported worldwide since their first discovery in 2015. However, a limited number of studies are available that compared full-length plasmid sequ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:91
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries, including the Philippines, face substantial challenges in achieving effective infection control. Early stages of interventions should include efforts ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:90
Published on: 2 September 2017
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Coagulase negative staphylococci were long regarded non-pathogenic as they are the commensals of human skin and mucosa but the recent changes in the medical practice and changes in underlying host populations,...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:89
Published on: 31 August 2017
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Disinfectants and antiseptics are biocides widely used in hospitals to prevent spread of pathogens. It has been reported that antiseptic resistance genes, qac’s, caused tolerance to a variety of biocidal agents, ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:88
Published on: 30 August 2017
Case report
Pseudomonas endocarditis is exceedingly rare, especially in patients without predisposing risks. We present such a case that included unexpected switches in antibacterial resistance pr...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:87
Published on: 29 August 2017
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Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) colonized with multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) are often placed under contact isolation to ensure appropriate infection control. This isolation may reduce o...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:86
Published on: 25 August 2017
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Emergence of antimicrobial resistance by Staphylococcus aureus has limited treatment options against its infections. The purpose of this study was to determine the pooled prevalence of resistance to different ant...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:85
Published on: 23 August 2017
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This study aims to characterize genetically related class 1 integrons In1069, In893 and In1287 to In1290, and to further propose a scheme of stepwise integration or excision of individual gene cassettes (GCs) ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:84
Published on: 22 August 2017
Letter to the Editor
Recently, plasmid-mediated colistin resistance was reported in humans, animals and food. We studied the presence of mcr-1 and mcr-2 in Dutch retail chicken meat. The prevalence of mcr-1 was 24,8% (53/214), wherea...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:83
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) remains a health problem for many countries in the world. The share of MDRTB is 10–30% among newly diagnosed cases and 20–70% among relapses and treatment failure. The ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:82
Published on: 16 August 2017
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Timely switch from intravenous (iv) antibiotics to oral therapy is a key component of antimicrobial stewardship programs in order to improve patient safety, promote early discharge and reduce costs. We have in...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:81
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Despite the employment of sanitary regimes, contact transmission of the aetiological agents of hospital infections is still exceedingly common. The issue of microbe transmission becomes particularly important ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:80
Published on: 14 August 2017
Short report
In this cross-sectional Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network survey on knowledge sharing in infection prevention we identified a rudimentary understanding of how to communicate and s...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:79
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Colistin is a last resort antibiotic for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram negative infections. Until recently, mechanisms of colistin resistance were limited to chromosomal mutations which confer a h...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:78
Published on: 3 August 2017
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Automated systems (MicroScan WalkAway 96 Plus, Phoenix 100, and Vitek 2 Compact) are widely used in clinical laboratories nowadays. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of these three systems f...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:77
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Proper hand hygiene with soap and detergents prevents the transmission of many infectious diseases. However, commercial detergents are less likely to be accessible or affordable to poor people in remote rural ...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:76
Published on: 28 July 2017
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Intensification of livestock production seen in many low- and middle-income countries is often believed to be associated with increased use of antimicrobials, and may hence contribute to the emergence of antim...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:75
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Patients with methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) are thought to incur additional costs for hospitals due to longer stay and contact isolation. The aim of this study was to assess the costs associated with MRS...
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:74
Published on: 6 July 2017
