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  1. Non-prescribed antimicrobial use and their resistance are among the main public health problems, worldwide. In Ethiopia, particularly in the northern part, the magnitude of non-prescribed antimicrobial use and...

    Authors: Negash Hadera Gebrekirstos, Birhanu Demeke Workneh, Yosef Sibhatu Gebregiorgis, Kebede Haile Misgina, Negassie Berhe Weldehaweria, Meresa Gebremedhin Weldu and Hailay Siyum Belay
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:70
  2. Many Highly Resistant Gram Negative Rod (HR-GNR) positive patients are found unexpectedly in clinical cultures, besides patients who are screened and isolated based on risk factors. As unexpected HR-GNR positi...

    Authors: Dennis Souverein, Sjoerd M. Euser, Bjorn L. Herpers, Corry Hattink, Patricia Houtman, Amerens Popma, Jan Kluytmans, John W. A. Rossen and Jeroen W. Den Boer
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:69
  3. In developing countries like Nepal, 90% ethanol is cheap and is available in most hospitals. The unavailability of isopropyl alcohol (IPA) in these settings led us to compare the efficacy between 90% ethanol a...

    Authors: Bijendra Raj Raghubanshi, Supriya Sapkota, Arjab Adhikari, Aman Dutta, Utsuk Bhattarai and Rastriyata Bhandari
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:68
  4. Healthcare associated infections (HCAI) and antimicrobial resistance are principal threats to the patients of intensive care units and are the major determining factors for patient outcome. They are associated...

    Authors: Narayan Prasad Parajuli, Subhash Prasad Acharya, Shyam Kumar Mishra, Keshab Parajuli, Basista Prasad Rijal and Bharat Mani Pokhrel
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:67
  5. Surgical site infections (SSI) are one of the most common healthcare associated infections in the low-middle income countries. Data on incidence and risk factors for SSI following surgeries in general and Obst...

    Authors: Ashish Pathak, Kalpana Mahadik, Manmat B. Swami, Pulak K. Roy, Megha Sharma, Vijay K. Mahadik and Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:66
  6. Hand hygiene has evolved over the last decades and many terminologies emerged. We aimed to analyse the evolution in the frequency of utilization of key hand hygiene terms in the literature along the years.

    Authors: Daniela Pires, Ermira Tartari, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:65
  7. Blood stream infections (BSI) are critical medical conditions with high morbidity and mortality. There is paucity of information on BSI from surveillance studies in Ghana.

    Authors: Japheth Awuletey Opintan and Mercy Jemima Newman
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:64
  8. Compared to developed countries, the use of antimicrobials in Egypt is less regulated and is available over the counter without the need for prescriptions. The impact of such policy on antimicrobial resistance...

    Authors: Lamiaa Mohsen, Nermin Ramy, Dalia Saied, Dina Akmal, Niveen Salama, Mona M. Abdel Haleim and Hany Aly
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:63
  9. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) and carbapenemase production among Enterobacteriaceae isolated from ambulatory patients with gastrointestinal compl...

    Authors: H.M. Abdallah, N. Alnaiemi, E.A. Reuland, B.B. Wintermans, A. Koek, A.M. Abdelwahab, A. Samy, K.W. Abdelsalam and C.M.J.E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:62
  10. Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important risk factor of subsequent infection. The purpose of our study was to compare the rates of subsequent infection among newly-admitted p...

    Authors: So Yeon Park, Doo Ryeon Chung, Yu Ri Kang, So Hyun Kim, Sun Young Cho, Young Eun Ha, Cheol-In Kang, Kyong Ran Peck and Jae-Hoon Song
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:60
  11. Sinks in patient rooms are associated with hospital-acquired infections. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of removal of sinks from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient rooms and the introducti...

    Authors: Joost Hopman, Alma Tostmann, Heiman Wertheim, Maria Bos, Eva Kolwijck, Reinier Akkermans, Patrick Sturm, Andreas Voss, Peter Pickkers and Hans vd Hoeven
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:59
  12. Exposure to antimicrobials is the major risk factor associated with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Paradoxically, treatment of CDI with antimicrobials remains the preferred option. To date, only three stu...

    Authors: Papanin Putsathit, Monthira Maneerattanaporn, Pipat Piewngam, Daniel R. Knight, Pattarachai Kiratisin and Thomas V. Riley
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:58
  13. Burkholderia cenocepacia is considered one of the most problematic cystic fibrosis (CF) pathogens. Colonization prevalence in the Serbian CF population is high and virtually exclusivel...

    Authors: Milka Malešević, Zorica Vasiljević, Aleksandar Sovtić, Brankica Filipić, Katarina Novović, Milan Kojić and Branko Jovčić
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:57
  14. The role of hospital water systems in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) surgical site infections (SSIs) in low-income countries is barely studied. This study characterized P. aeruginosa is...

    Authors: Nyambura Moremi, Heike Claus, Ulrich Vogel and Stephen E. Mshana
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:56
  15. Changing phenotypic profiles of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) isolates can indicate the emergence of novel sequence types (ST). The diffusion of MSSA ST can be tracked by combining establis...

    Authors: Margaret Carrel, Michihiko Goto, Marin L. Schweizer, Michael Z. David, Daniel Livorsi and Eli N. Perencevich
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:55
  16. In healthcare facilities, Clostridium difficile infections spread by transmission of bacterial spores. Appropriate sporicidal disinfectants are needed to prevent development of clusters and outbreaks. In this stu...

    Authors: N. Kenters, E. G. W. Huijskens, S. C. J. de Wit, I. G. J. M. Sanders, J. van Rosmalen, E. J. Kuijper and A. Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:54
  17. The rates of antimicrobial-resistant organisms (ARO) continue to increase for both hospitalized and community patients. Few resources have been allocated to reduce the spread of resistance on global, national ...

    Authors: Jenine R. Leal, John Conly, Elizabeth Ann Henderson and Braden J. Manns
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:53
  18. Authors: Teresa Conceição, Hermínia de Lencastre, Marta Aires-de-Sousa, Rocio Alvarez Marin, Marta Aires de Sousa, Nicolas Kieffer, Patrice Nordmann, Laurent Poirel, Wison Laochareonsuk, Sireekul Petyu, Pawin Wanasitchaiwat, Sutasinee Thana, Chollathip Bunyaphongphan, Woranan Boonsomsuk, Pakpoom Maneepongpermpoon, Silom Jamulitrat…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:51

    The original article was published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:25

  19. VIM-type enzyme encodes the most widely acquired metallo-β-lactamases in Gram- negative bacteria. To obtain current epidemiological data for integrons from enterobacteriae in hospital, the study characterizes ...

    Authors: Dongguo Wang, Jinhong Yang, Meiyu Fang, Wei He, Ying Zhang, Caixia Liu and Dongsheng Zhou
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:50
  20. We aimed to determine the prevalence of colonization by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria including ESBL-producing enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and

    Authors: Ines Zollner-Schwetz, Elisabeth Zechner, Elisabeth Ullrich, Josefa Luxner, Christian Pux, Gerald Pichler, Walter Schippinger, Robert Krause and Eva Leitner
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:49
  21. To investigate the impact of weekly screening within the bundle of infection control measures to terminate vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) transmissions on an oncologic ward.

    Authors: Stefanie Kampmeier, Dennis Knaack, Annelene Kossow, Stefanie Willems, Christoph Schliemann, Wolfgang E. Berdel, Frank Kipp and Alexander Mellmann
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:48
  22. The causes of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in developing countries are complex and may be rooted in practices of health care professionals and patients’ behavior towards the use of antimicrobials as well as ...

    Authors: James A. Ayukekbong, Michel Ntemgwa and Andrew N. Atabe
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:47
  23. The objective of this study was to determine whether patients infected with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms are colonized at multiple body sites.

    Authors: Zeina A. Kanafani, Sukayna M. Fadlallah, Sarah Assaf, Khalil Anouti, Kohar Annie B. Kissoyan, Jad Sfeir, Tamara Nawar, Mohamad Yasmin and Ghassan M. Matar
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:46
  24. Despite remarkable developments in the use of surgical techniques, ergonomic advancements in the operating room, and implementation of bundles, surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a substantial burden, asso...

    Authors: E. Tartari, V. Weterings, P. Gastmeier, J. Rodríguez Baño, A. Widmer, J. Kluytmans and A. Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:45
  25. Studies have implicated Staphylococcus aureus as the leading cause of septicemia in the Tamale metropolis of Ghana. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of S. aureus

    Authors: Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba, Jean Kwadwo Amenyona and Stephen Wilson Kpordze
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:44
  26. Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common post-operative complication causing significant morbidity and mortality. Many SSI occur after discharge from hospital. Post-discharge SSI surveillance in low and middl...

    Authors: Boniface Nguhuni, Pasquale De Nardo, Elisa Gentilotti, Zainab Chaula, Caroline Damian, Paola Mencarini, Emanuele Nicastri, Arnold Fulment, Alessandro Piscini, Francesco Vairo, Alexander M. Aiken and Giuseppe Ippolito
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:43
  27. Infections by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) have been continuously growing and pose challenge to health institution globally. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacea (CRE) was identified as ...

    Authors: Abdul Rahman Zaidah, Nurul Izzah Mohammad, Siti Suraiya and Azian Harun
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:42
  28. Globally, between 20 to 50% of antimicrobial consumption is inappropriate, causing significant impact on the quality of care, cost of therapy and incidence of adverse drug reactions. The purpose of this study ...

    Authors: Muhammad Atif, Muhammad Azeem, Anum Saqib and Shane Scahill
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:41
  29. Organ-space surgical site infections (SSI) are the most serious and costly infections after colorectal surgery. Most previous studies of risk factors for SSI have analysed colon and rectal procedures together....

    Authors: Aina Gomila, Jordi Carratalà, Daniel Camprubí, Evelyn Shaw, Josep Mª Badia, Antoni Cruz, Francesc Aguilar, Carmen Nicolás, Anna Marrón, Laura Mora, Rafel Perez, Lydia Martin, Rosa Vázquez, Ana Felisa Lopez, Enric Limón, Francesc Gudiol…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:40
  30. To determine the incidence of P. aeruginosa (PA) ICU pneumonia and its independent association with PA colonization at ICU admission.

    Authors: Fleur P. Paling, Martin Wolkewitz, Pieter Depuydt, Liesbet de Bus, Frangiscos Sifakis, Marc J. M. Bonten and Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:38
  31. To assess the scope of infection control measures for multidrug-resistant bacteria in high-risk settings, a survey among university hospitals was conducted. Fourteen professionals from 8 sites participated. Re...

    Authors: Lena M. Biehl, Hartmut Bertz, Johannes Bogner, Ute-Helke Dobermann, Johanna Kessel, Carolin Krämer, Sebastian Lemmen, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal, Silke Peter, Mathias W. Pletz, Holger Rohde, Stefan Schmiedel, Sören Schubert, Andrew J. Ullmann, Gerd Fätkenheuer and Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:37
  32. This study aims to assess the susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates to the antiseptics and disinfectants commonly used, and to the non-approved product.

    Authors: Sanae Lanjri, Jean Uwingabiye, Mohammed Frikh, Lina Abdellatifi, Jalal Kasouati, Adil Maleb, Abdelouahed Bait, Abdelhay Lemnouer and Mostafa Elouennass
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:36
  33. Hospital acquired infections occur at higher rates in low- and middle-income countries, like India, than in high-income countries. Effective implementation of infection control practices is crucial to reducing...

    Authors: Anna K. Barker, Kelli Brown, Dawd Siraj, Muneeb Ahsan, Sharmila Sengupta and Nasia Safdar
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:35
  34. A recent study led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed at least 30% of antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting were inappropriate. In this study of all ages, among adult...

    Authors: Diane M. Parente, Tristan T. Timbrook, Aisling R. Caffrey and Kerry L. LaPlante
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:33
  35. Device-associated infections due to biofilm-producing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been recently associated with the failure of antibiotic treatment and decolonization measures. The goa...

    Authors: Frank Günther, Brigitte Blessing, Evelina Tacconelli and Nico T. Mutters
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:32
  36. The objective of this study was to investigate independent risk factors (RFs) connected with healthcare-associated (HA) Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in surgical patients, its frequency per surgical wards...

    Authors: Vesna Šuljagić, Ivan Miljković, Srđan Starčević, Nenad Stepić, Zoran Kostić, Dragutin Jovanović, Jelena Brusić-Renaud, Biljana Mijović and Sandra Šipetić-Grujičić
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:31
  37. Antibiotic misuse is widespread in resource-limited countries such as Cambodia where the burden of infectious diseases is high and access to antibiotics is unrestricted. We explored healthcare seeking behaviou...

    Authors: Chhorvoin Om, Frances Daily, Erika Vlieghe, James C. McLaughlin and Mary-Louise McLaws
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:30
  38. Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a major threat to global public health. Thus, the surveillance of changes in antimicrobial resistance in local and global settings is a paramount necessity. While many s...

    Authors: Marko Oydanich, Tanis C. Dingle, Camille L. Hamula, Claudia Ghisa and Penny Asbell
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:29
  39. The extent of the occurrence of the plasmid-encoded colistin resistance genes mcr-1 and mcr-2 among humans is currently sparsely studied in Western Europe.

    Authors: Katrin Zurfluh, Roger Stephan, Andreas Widmer, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, Hans-Jakob Nüesch, Herbert Hächler and Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:28
  40. Candidemia is a common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted to describe the epidemiology, species distribution, antifungal susceptibil...

    Authors: Jocelyn Qi-Min Teo, Samuel Rocky Candra, Shannon Jing-Yi Lee, Shannon Yu-Hng Chia, Hui Leck, Ai-Ling Tan, Hui-Peng Neo, Kenneth Wei-Liang Leow, Yiying Cai, Rachel Pui-Lai Ee, Tze-Peng Lim, Winnie Lee and Andrea Lay-Hoon Kwa
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:27

    The Correction to this article has been published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2018 7:130

  41. Authors: Nantanit Sutthiruk, Mari Botti, Julie Considine, Andrea Driscoll, Ana Hutchinson, Kumthorn Malathum, Cucunawangsih Cucunawangsih, Veronica Wiwing, Vivien Puspitasari, Rathina Kumar Shanmugakani, Yukihiro Akeda, Takuya Kodera, Pitak Santanirand, Kazunori Tomono, Takayuki Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Moriuchi…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6(Suppl 2):25

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 2

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:51

  42. New Delhi metallo beta-lactamase is known to compromise carbapenem therapy and leading to treatment failure. However, their response to carbapenem stress is not clearly known. Here, we have investigated the tr...

    Authors: Deepjyoti Paul, Amitabha Bhattacharjee, Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee, Debadatta Dhar, Anand Prakash Maurya and Atanu Chakravarty
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:26
  43. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are emerging pathogens that represent a major public health threat. In the University Hospital of Brussels, the incidence of new patients with CPE rose from 1 case...

    Authors: Deborah De Geyter, Lieve Blommaert, Nicole Verbraeken, Mark Sevenois, Luc Huyghens, Helena Martini, Lieve Covens, Denis Piérard and Ingrid Wybo
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:24
  44. Hand hygiene is recognized as an important measure to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Hand hygiene adherence among healthcare workers is associated with their knowledge and perception. This study aim...

    Authors: Dewi Santosaningsih, Dewi Erikawati, Sanarto Santoso, Noorhamdani Noorhamdani, Irene Ratridewi, Didi Candradikusuma, Iin N. Chozin, Thomas E. C. J. Huwae, Gwen van der Donk, Eva van Boven, Anne F. Voor in ’t holt, Henri A. Verbrugh and Juliëtte A. Severin
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:23
  45. Here we describe a cluster of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) among 26 patients with osteoarticular infections. The aim of the study was to define the source of C. difficile and to evalua...

    Authors: Jacqueline Färber, Sebastian Illiger, Fabian Berger, Barbara Gärtner, Lutz von Müller, Christoph H. Lohmann, Katja Bauer, Christina Grabau, Stefanie Zibolka, Dirk Schlüter and Gernot Geginat
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:22
  46. Ralstonia spp, an environmental microorganism, has been occasionally associated with healthcare infections. The aim of this study was to investigate an outbreak caused by Ralstonia man...

    Authors: Claudia Lucarelli, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Luigi Toma, Domenico Bracco, Grazia Prignano, Maria Fortunati, Lorella Pelagalli, Fabrizio Ensoli, Patrizio Pezzotti, Aurora García-Fernández, Annalisa Pantosti and Loredana Ingrosso
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2017 6:20