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  1. Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have led to guidelines recommending the routine use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers, many of whom are women of childbearing age. The respiratory effects of p...

    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 2015 4:48
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control 2016 5:26

  2. Candida species are major causes of healthcare-associated infections with colonization preceding infection. Understanding risk factors for colonization by Candida species is important in prevention. However, d...

    Authors: Danielle M. Schulte, Ajay Sethi, Ronald Gangnon, Megan Duster, Dennis G. Maki and Nasia Safdar
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:46
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  4. In clinical practice, patients who are awake often comment that cold surgical skin disinfectant is unpleasant. This is not only a problem of patients’ experience; heat loss during the disinfection process is a...

    Authors: Camilla Wistrand, Bo Söderquist, Anders Magnusson and Ulrica Nilsson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:44
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  5. The overuse of antimicrobials is one of the main factors responsible for the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance, together with other causes, such as intra- and inter-hospital spread of resistan...

    Authors: Antonella Agodi, Martina Barchitta, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Andrea Maugeri, Eugenia Aldisio, Anna Elisa Marchese, Anna Rita Mattaliano and Athanassios Tsakris
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:43
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  6. Emergence of antibacterial resistance and production of Extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) are responsible for the frequently observed empirical therapy failures. Most countries have experienced rapid diss...

    Authors: Kamlesh Kumar Yadav, Nabaraj Adhikari, Rama Khadka, Anil Dev Pant and Bibha Shah
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:42
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  7. Although hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients are routinely exposed to classic risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), few studies have assessed CDI risk in these high-risk patients, and...

    Authors: Nicole M. Boyle, Amalia Magaret, Zach Stednick, Alex Morrison, Susan Butler-Wu, Danielle Zerr, Karin Rogers, Sara Podczervinski, Anqi Cheng, Anna Wald and Steven A. Pergam
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:41
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  8. Acinetobacter baumannii can cause serious healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the incidence is increasing, with many strains now resistant to multiple antibiotic classes. The a...

    Authors: Darcy Ellis, Bevin Cohen, Jianfang Liu and Elaine Larson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:40
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  9. Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of infections in both the community and hospital. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus continues to be an important nosocomial pathogen...

    Authors: Rita Khanal, Prakash Sah, Pramila Lamichhane, Apsana Lamsal, Sweety Upadhaya and Vijay Kumar Pahwa
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:39
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  10. The emergence and worldwide spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae is of great concern to public health services. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of carbapenemase-producin...

    Authors: K. Zurfluh, L. Poirel, P. Nordmann, J. Klumpp and R. Stephan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:38
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  11. The hands of the medical staff play an important role in transmission of pathogens in the health care environment. Hand hygiene is efficient, easy to perform and cost-effective. Safety, tolerability and accept...

    Authors: Andreas Conrad, Birgit Grotejohann, Claudia Schmoor, Drago Cosic and Markus Dettenkofer
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:37
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  12. In hospital settings, patient isolation is used to limit transmission of certain pathogens (e.g. M. tuberculosis [TB], antibiotic-resistant bacteria and viruses causing respiratory and enteric infection). Data is...

    Authors: Angela Dramowski, Mark F. Cotton and Andrew Whitelaw
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:36
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  13. Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) surveillance for incident methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitalized patients is performed in a complete provincial surveillance network of all acute...

    Authors: Kathryn Bush, Jenine Leal, Sumana Fathima, Vincent Li, David Vickers, Linda Chui, Marie Louie, Geoffrey Taylor and Elizabeth Henderson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:35
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  14. Patients in resourced-limited neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU) are vulnerable to healthcare associated infections (HAI). We report the incidence of HAI, multidrug resistant microorga...

    Authors: Emine Alp, Tülay Orhan, Cemile Atalay Kürkcü, Safiye Ersoy and Mary-Louise McLaws
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:34
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  15. People in low-income countries purchase a high proportion of antimicrobials from retail drug shops, both with and without a prescription. Tanzania’s accredited drug dispensing outlet (ADDO) program includes di...

    Authors: John C Chalker, Catherine Vialle-Valentin, Jafary Liana, Romuald Mbwasi, Innocent A Semali, Bernard Kihiyo, Elizabeth Shekalaghe, Angel Dillip, Suleiman Kimatta, Richard Valimba, Martha Embrey, Rachel Lieber, Edmund Rutta, Keith Johnson and Dennis Ross-Degnan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:33
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  16. Hand hygiene practice is an important measure for preventing infections in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). However, low compliance with hand hygiene has been reported in a number of studies. The purpose of ...

    Authors: Rita Szabó, Júlia Morvai, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:32
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  17. While multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) are a global phenomenon, there are significant regional differences in terms of prevalence. Traveling to countries with a high MDRO prevalence increases the risk of ...

    Authors: T. Kaspar, A. Schweiger, S. Droz and J. Marschall
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:31
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  18. Tanzania introduced the accredited drug dispensing outlet (ADDO) program more than a decade ago. Previous evaluations have generally shown that ADDOs meet defined standards of practice better than non-accredit...

    Authors: Angel Dillip, Martha Embrey, Elizabeth Shekalaghe, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Catherine Vialle-Valentin, Suleiman Kimatta, Jafary Liana, Edmund Rutta, Richard Valimba and John Chalker
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:30
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  19. Australia has commenced public reporting and benchmarking of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), despite not having a standardised national HAI surveillance program. Annual hospital Staphylococcus aureus blo...

    Authors: Philip L. Russo, Adrian G. Barnett, Allen C. Cheng, Michael Richards, Nicholas Graves and Lisa Hall
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:29
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  20. The Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) was established in 2008 to lead delivery of the national antimicrobial stewardship programme. We performed a national self-reported survey in 2014 to evaluat...

    Authors: Clare Colligan, Jacqueline Sneddon, Gwen Bayne, William Malcolm, Gill Walker and Dilip Nathwani
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:28
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  21. Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is increasingly reported worldwide. A similar increase is seen in Singapore since identification of its first case in 2008. The aim of this study was to identify loca...

    Authors: Moi Lin Ling, Yong Ming Tee, Soong Geck Tan, Ismawati M. Amin, Kue Bien How, Kwee Yuen Tan and Lai Chee Lee
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:26
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