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  1. Authors: Helen Wangai, Felister Kiberenge, Alex Elobu, Josephat Jombwe, Peter Ongom, Dorah Nakamwa, Alexander Aiken, Benedetta Allegranzi, Mpho Sikhosana, Wolgang Preiser, Angela Dramowski, Heather Finlayson, Tonya Esterhuizen, Jehan El Kholy, Mervat Gaber, Dina Mostafa…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6(Suppl 1):1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1

  2. Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae is a growing concern worldwide including Malaysia. The emergence of this pathogen is worrying because carbapenem is one of the 'last-line' antibiotics. The main objectiv...

    Authors: Ye-Mun Low, Polly Soo-Xi Yap, Kartini Abdul Jabar, Sasheela Ponnampalavanar, Rina Karunakaran, Rukumani Velayuthan, Chun-Wie Chong, Sazaly Abu Bakar, Mohd Yasim Md Yusof and Cindy Shuan-Ju Teh
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:5
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  3. According to the presence of the weak, diabetic and immunosuppressive patients in hospitals, hospital foods should have a high quality and safety. Cooking a lot of foods higher than daily requirement, storage ...

    Authors: Reza Ranjbar, Mojtaba Masoudimanesh, Farhad Safarpoor Dehkordi, Nematollah Jonaidi-Jafari and Ebrahim Rahimi
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:4
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  4. The burden of health-care associated infections in low-income countries is high. Adequate hand hygiene is considered the most effective measure to reduce the transmission of nosocomial pathogens. We aimed to a...

    Authors: Frieder Pfäfflin, Tafese Beyene Tufa, Million Getachew, Tsehaynesh Nigussie, Andreas Schönfeld, Dieter Häussinger, Torsten Feldt and Nicole Schmidt
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:3
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  5. Bloodstream infections due to bacterial pathogens are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh and other developing countries. In these countries, most patients are treated empirically based on t...

    Authors: Dilruba Ahmed, Md Ausrafuggaman Nahid, Abdullah Bashar Sami, Farhana Halim, Nasrin Akter, Tuhin Sadique, Md Sohel Rana, Md Shahriar Bin Elahi and Md Mahbubur Rahman
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:2
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  6. Cambodia is affected by antibiotic resistance but interventions to reduce the level of resistance require knowledge of the phenomena that lead to inappropriate prescribing. We interviewed physicians working in...

    Authors: Chhorvoin Om, Frances Daily, Erika Vlieghe, James C. McLaughlin and Mary-Louise McLaws
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:58
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  7. Asymptomatic carriage has been recognised as an important risk factor for infection caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria. A 14% global prevalence of Extended-Spectrum Beta-lactamase (ESBL) carriage was rece...

    Authors: Charlotte R. Ulstad, Margrete Solheim, Sophie Berg, Morten Lindbæk, Ulf R. Dahle and Astrid L. Wester
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:57
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  8. A study based on 2007 data estimated that 386,000 infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDRB) occurred in Europe that year and 25,000 patients died from these infections. Our objective was to estimat...

    Authors: M. Colomb-Cotinat, J. Lacoste, C. Brun-Buisson, V. Jarlier, B. Coignard and S. Vaux
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:56
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  9. Eosinophilic pneumonia comprises a group of lung diseases in which eosinophils appear in increased numbers in the lungs and sometimes in the bloodstream. Several case reports link daptomycin use to this phenom...

    Authors: Priyasha Uppal, Kerry L. LaPlante, Melissa M. Gaitanis, Matthew D. Jankowich and Kristina E. Ward
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:55
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  10. Hand hygiene is an important element of the WHO multimodal strategy for healthcare-associated infection control, whereas compliance of hand hygiene among healthcare workers (HCWs) remains a challenge to sustai...

    Authors: Peng Chen, Ting Yuan, Qinfeng Sun, Lili Jiang, Hongmin Jiang, Zhenkun Zhu, Zexin Tao, Haiyan Wang and Aiqiang Xu
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:54
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  11. We report on an outbreak in a surgical, interdisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital. We detected a cluster of ICU patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas ae...

    Authors: Florian Salm, Maria Deja, Petra Gastmeier, Axel Kola, Sonja Hansen, Michael Behnke, Désirée Gruhl and Rasmus Leistner
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:53
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  12. Device-associated nosocomial infections (DA-NIs), due to MDR Enterobacteriaceae, are a major threat to patient safety in ICUs. We investigated on Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae

    Authors: Masoumeh Bagheri-Nesami, Alireza Rafiei, Gohar Eslami, Fatemeh Ahangarkani, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Attieh Nikkhah and Azin Hajalibeig
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:52
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  13. The influence of the hospital’s infrastructure on healthcare-associated colonization and infection rates has thus far infrequently been examined. In this review we examine whether healthcare facility design is...

    Authors: Andrea Stiller, Florian Salm, Peter Bischoff and Petra Gastmeier
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:51
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  14. Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae has emerged as an important community pathogen causing various infections, including liver abscesses. Although serotype K1 K. pneumoniae community isolates have been reported as ...

    Authors: Hae Suk Cheong, Doo Ryeon Chung, Chaeyoeng Lee, So Hyun Kim, Cheol-In Kang, Kyong Ran Peck and Jae-Hoon Song
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:50
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  15. Antimicrobial resistance is a public health problem of global importance. In Singapore, much focus has been given to antibiotic usage patterns in hospital settings. Data on antibiotic use in primary care is la...

    Authors: Zaw Myo Tun, Mahesh Moorthy, Martin Linster, Yvonne C. F. Su, Richard James Coker, Eng Eong Ooi, Jenny Guek-Hong Low, Gavin J. D. Smith and Clarence C. Tam
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:47
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  16. We assessed the validity of testing for antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical and mutant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) isolates by disk diffusion in comparison to agar dilution, and Etest® (bioMerieux, France), r...

    Authors: Hsi Liu, Thomas H. Taylor Jr, Kevin Pettus, Steve Johnson, John R. Papp and David Trees
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:46
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  17. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are a cause of increased morbidity and mortality, and are largely preventable. We documented attitudes and practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in 20...

    Authors: Cristina Valencia, Naïma Hammami, Antonella Agodi, Alain Lepape, Eduardo Palencia Herrejon, Stijn Blot, Jean-Louis Vincent and Marie-Laurence Lambert
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:49
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  18. Although Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections (KP-BSIs) have recently attracted attention due to an alarming raise in morbidity and mortality, there have been few reports on the epidemiology of KP-BSIs in...

    Authors: Lijun Tian, Ruoming Tan, Yang Chen, Jingyong Sun, Jialin Liu, Hongping Qu and Xiaoli Wang
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:48
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  19. Bacteria belonging to the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are an important cause of chronic respiratory tract infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Intrinsic resistance to a wide range of antimicrobial agent...

    Authors: Annelien Everaert and Tom Coenye
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:44
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  20. During the recent Ebola outbreak, spraying of the environment and humans, including healthcare workers, with chlorine was wide spread in affected African countries; adverse clinical effects are reported here.

    Authors: Shaheen Mehtar, Andre N. H. Bulabula, Haurace Nyandemoh and Steve Jambawai
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:45
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  21. Pneumonia is one of the leading hospital-acquired infections worldwide and has an important impact. Although preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are well known, less is known about ap...

    Authors: Leonor Pássaro, Stephan Harbarth and Caroline Landelle
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:43
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. Cambodia has reported multidrug resistant bacteria in poultry, similar to other countries in the region. We visited commercial food animal farms to explore opinions and antibiotic practices on the farms.

    Authors: Chhorvoin Om and Mary-Louise McLaws
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:42
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  23. An electronic survey was disseminated amongst infection control practitioners to investigate the variation in practices toward vancomycin resistant enterococci. There were 235 analysable responses, mostly from...

    Authors: H. Isenman, J. Michaels and D. Fisher
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:41
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  24. Simulations using fluorescent tracers can be useful in understanding the spread of pathogens and in devising effective infection control strategies.

    Authors: Heba Alhmidi, Sreelatha Koganti, Myreen E. Tomas, Jennifer L. Cadnum, Annette Jencson and Curtis J. Donskey
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:40
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  25. Antimicrobial resistance is a public health challenge supplemented by inappropriate prescribing, especially for an upper respiratory tract infection in primary care. Patient/carer expectations have been identi...

    Authors: Christina Gaarslev, Melissa Yee, Georgi Chan, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey and Rabia Khan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:39
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  26. We sought to define regional variations in fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility (FQ-NS) among bloodstream isolates of Escherichia coli across the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in the United States.

    Authors: Daniel J. Livorsi, Michihiko Goto, Margaret Carrel, Makoto M. Jones, Jennifer McDanel, Rajeshwari Nair, Bruce Alexander, Brice Beck, Kelly K. Richardson and Eli N. Perencevich
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:38
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  27. In a previous study, we demonstrated prolonged length of hospital stay in cases of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-positive K. pneumoniae bacteremia compared to bacteremia cases due to E. coli (ESBL-posit...

    Authors: R. Leistner, A. Bloch, P. Gastmeier and F. Schwab
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:37
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  28. Whilst numerous studies have investigated nurses’ compliance with hand hygiene and use of alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR), limited attention has been paid to these issues in allied health staff. Reports have lin...

    Authors: Margaret O’Donoghue, Suk-Hing Ng, Lorna KP Suen and Maureen Boost
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:36
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  29. Candida auris is a globally emerging multidrug resistant fungal pathogen causing nosocomial transmission. We report an ongoing outbreak of C. auris in a London cardio-thoracic center b...

    Authors: Silke Schelenz, Ferry Hagen, Johanna L. Rhodes, Alireza Abdolrasouli, Anuradha Chowdhary, Anne Hall, Lisa Ryan, Joanne Shackleton, Richard Trimlett, Jacques F. Meis, Darius Armstrong-James and Matthew C. Fisher
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:35
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  30. The uptake of improvement initiatives in infection prevention and control (IPC) has often proven challenging. Innovative interventions such as ‘serious games’ have been proposed in other areas to educate and h...

    Authors: Enrique Castro-Sánchez, Yiannis Kyratsis, Michiyo Iwami, Timothy M. Rawson and Alison H. Holmes
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:34
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  31. Rates of colonization and infection with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are increasing worldwide, in both acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Italy has one of the highest prevalence...

    Authors: Richard Aschbacher, Elisabetta Pagani, Massimo Confalonieri, Claudio Farina, Paolo Fazii, Francesco Luzzaro, Pier Giorgio Montanera, Aurora Piazza and Laura Pagani
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:33
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  32. Residents of nursing homes are commonly colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) but there is a limited understanding of the dynamics and determinants of spread in this setting. To addres...

    Authors: Nataliya G. Batina, Christopher J. Crnich, David F. Anderson and Dörte Döpfer
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:32
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  33. Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci has increased in Germany. Here, we report the cluster of linezolid- and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (LVRE) in a German department for hematologic stem ...

    Authors: M. Krull, I. Klare, B. Ross, R. Trenschel, D. W. Beelen, D. Todt, E. Steinmann, J. Buer, P-M. Rath and J. Steinmann
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:31
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  34. Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious public health problem in Nepal. It is a major obstacle for the control of the tuberculosis. The main objectives of this study were to determine the preval...

    Authors: Gobinda Thapa, Narayan Dutt Pant, Saroj Khatiwada, Binod lekhak and Bhawana Shrestha
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:30
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  35. Antimicrobial resistance has been recognised as a serious global Public Health problem. Prevalence of Multiple-Drug-Resistant (MDR) organism carriage in Albania is largely unknown since no national surveillanc...

    Authors: Falzon A. Parascandalo, P. Zarb, E. Tartari, D. Lacej, S. Bitincka, O. Manastirliu, D. Nika and M. A. Borg
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:29
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  36. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control would like to thank the following colleagues for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for the journal in 2015.

    Authors: Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:28
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  37. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has evolved as a serious threat to public health. It has capability to cause infections not only in health care settings but also in community. Due to the multid...

    Authors: Arjun Ojha Kshetry, Narayan Dutt Pant, Raju Bhandari, Sabita Khatri, Krishma Laxmi Shrestha, Shambhu Kumar Upadhaya, Asia Poudel, Binod Lekhak and Bijendra R. Raghubanshi
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:27
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  38. Authors: Pearl Shuang Ye Tong, Anita Sugam Kale, Kailyn Ng, Amelia Peiwen Loke, Mahesh Arjandas Choolani, Chin Leong Lim, Yiong Huak Chan, Yap Seng Chong, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah and Eu-Leong Yong
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:26
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2015 4:48

  39. Guidelines for the control of hospital-acquired MRSA include decolonization measures to end MRSA carrier status in colonized and infected patients. Successful decolonization typically requires up to 22 days of...

    Authors: Bernhard Jahn, Trudy M. Wassenaar and Annemarie Stroh
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:25
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  40. The role of asymptomatic carriers of toxigenic Clostridium difficile (TCD) in nosocomial cross-transmission remains debatable. Moreover, its relevance in the elderly has been sparsely studied.

    Authors: Daniela Pires, Virginie Prendki, Gesuele Renzi, Carolina Fankhauser, Valerie Sauvan, Benedikt Huttner, Jacques Schrenzel and Stephan Harbarth
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:24
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  41. Cholera is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in underdeveloped countries including Nepal. Recently drug resistance in Vibrio cholerae has become a serious problem mainly in developing countries. The main o...

    Authors: Pappu Kumar Gupta, Narayan Dutt Pant, Ramkrishna Bhandari and Padma Shrestha
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:23
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  42. Enteric fever is an important public health problem in Nepal. Due to emergence of multidrug resistant strains of Salmonella spp. the conventional first-line drugs, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and cotrimoxazole h...

    Authors: Krishma Laxmi Shrestha, Narayan Dutt Pant, Raju Bhandari, Sabita Khatri, Basudha Shrestha and Binod Lekhak
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:22
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  43. A hospital-associated outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was reported. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of infection control measures among healthcare workers (HCWs) who we...

    Authors: Surasak Wiboonchutikul, Weerawat Manosuthi, Sirirat Likanonsakul, Chariya Sangsajja, Paweena Kongsanan, Ravee Nitiyanontakij, Varaporn Thientong, Hatairat Lerdsamran and Pilaipan Puthavathana
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:21
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  44. Infection prevention and control can be seen as a wicked public health problem as there is no consensus regarding problem definition and solution, multiple stakeholders with different needs and values are invo...

    Authors: Anne F. G. van Woezik, Louise M. A. Braakman-Jansen, Olga Kulyk, Liseth Siemons and Julia E. W. C. van Gemert-Pijnen
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:20
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  45. Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) are an important public health problem in developed countries, but comprehensive data on trends over time are lacking. Prevalence surveys have been used as a surrogate for ...

    Authors: Geoffrey Taylor, Denise Gravel, Anne Matlow, Joanne Embree, Nicole LeSaux, Lynn Johnston, Kathryn N. Suh, Michael John, John Embil, Elizabeth Henderson, Virginia Roth and Alice Wong
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:19
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  46. A high proportion of Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae is causing common infections in all regions of the world. The burden of antibiotic resistance due to ESBL in East Africa i...

    Authors: Tolbert Sonda, Happiness Kumburu, Marco van Zwetselaar, Michael Alifrangis, Ole Lund, Gibson Kibiki and Frank M. Aarestrup
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:18
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  47. The International Consortium for Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) organises a biannual conference (ICPIC) on various subjects related to infection prevention, treatment and control. During ICPIC 2015, ...

    Authors: Pauline Vetter, Julie-Anne Dayer, Manuel Schibler, Benedetta Allegranzi, Donal Brown, Alexandra Calmy, Derek Christie, Sergey Eremin, Olivier Hagon, David Henderson, Anne Iten, Edward Kelley, Frederick Marais, Babacar Ndoye, Jérôme Pugin, Hugues Robert-Nicoud…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:17
    Content type: Meeting report Published on:

  48. This document is an executive summary of the APSIC Guide for Prevention of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI). It describes key evidence-based care components of the Central Line Insertion...

    Authors: Moi Lin Ling, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Namita Jaggi, Glenys Harrington, Keita Morikane, Le Thi Anh Thu, Patricia Ching, Victoria Villanueva, Zhiyong Zong, Jae Sim Jeong and Chun-Ming Lee
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:16
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  49. Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDRGN), including extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and multidrug-resistant glucose-nonfermenting Gram-negative bacilli (nonfermenters), have emerged and spread...

    Authors: Nuntra Suwantarat and Karen C. Carroll
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:15
    Content type: Guidelines article Published on:

  50. Infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamases producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) are of major concern in clinical practice because of limited therapeutic options effective to treat them. Published stu...

    Authors: Awa Ndir, Amadou Diop, Roughyatou Ka, Pape Makhtar Faye, Ndeye Mery Dia-Badiane, Babacar Ndoye and Pascal Astagneau
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:13
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