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  7. Authors: LS AlAwdah, D AlShahrani, M AlShehri, T AlFawaz, N ElSidig, A AlAwfi, K Baba, A AlAqeel, A AlSharif, I AlHarfi, S Amjad, A AlDarwish and S Rasheed
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4(Suppl 1):P173
    Content type: Poster presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 4 Supplement 1

  14. Authors: LR Ferreira, MG Menegueti, GG Gaspar, MFI Silva, G David, NM Anselmo, MJF Gabriel, LM Sakamoto, R Martinez and F Bellissimo-Rodrigues
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4(Suppl 1):O7
    Content type: Oral presentation Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 4 Supplement 1

  16. Emergence of colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has become a worldwide challenge. To investigate whether the increasing incidence of VRE isolation can be correlated with use...

    Authors: Christina Forstner, Magda Diab-Elschahawi, Danijel Kivaranovic, Wolfgang Graninger, Dieter Mitteregger, Maria Macher, Thomas Wrba and Elisabeth Presterl
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Carbapenem resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa has become a serious life-threatening problem due to the limited therapeutic options. In this study, we investigated the prevalence and the molecular epidemiolog...

    Authors: Samah Meradji, Abouddihaj Barguigua, Khalid Zerouali, Dekhil Mazouz, Houria Chettibi, Naima Elmdaghri and Mohammed Timinouni
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. In response to global concerns about the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD), outbreak to-date in West Africa documented healthcare associated transmission and the risk of global spread, the International Societ...

    Authors: Ermira Tartari, Benedetta Allegranzi, Brenda Ang, Neville Calleja, Peter Collignon, Joost Hopman, Lily Lang, Lai Chee Lee, Moi Lin Ling, Shaheen Mehtar, Paul A. Tambyah, Andreas Widmer and Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Norway has a low, but increasing prevalence of resistance and few antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. When developing stewardship interventions, an understanding of the determinants of antimicrobial prescri...

    Authors: Brita Skodvin, Karina Aase, Esmita Charani, Alison Holmes and Ingrid Smith
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Antibiotic allergy labels are associated with sub-optimal prescribing patterns and poorer clinical outcomes in non-cancer populations, but the effect of labelling on antimicrobial usage in patients with cancer...

    Authors: Jason A. Trubiano, Vivian K. Leung, Man Y. Chu, Leon J. Worth, Monica A. Slavin and Karin A. Thursky
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:23
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  21. Salmonella has been recognized as a major cause of food borne illness associated with meat products worldwide. The wide spread of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella has been a serious global hu...

    Authors: Legesse Garedew, Zenabu Hagos, Zelalem Addis, Reta Tesfaye and Bidir Zegeye
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Despite of the steady decrease of surgical site infection (SSI) over the last two decades, the incidence of SSI after hip and knee arthroplasty has recently surged. This may be explained by technical changes t...

    Authors: Jeffery Ho, Jacques F Meis, Marrigje Nabuurs-Franssen and Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:19
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common and most important pathogen following knee and hip arthroplasty procedures. Understanding the epidemiology of invasive S. aureus infections is important...

    Authors: Jean Marie Arduino, Keith S Kaye, Shelby D Reed, Senaka A Peter, Daniel J Sexton, Luke F Chen, N Chantelle Hardy, Steven YC Tong, Steven S Smugar, Vance G Fowler Jr and Deverick J Anderson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Optimizing user satisfaction with alcohol-based hand rubs (ABHR) may be vital to enhance hand hygiene performance. This study tested the tolerability and acceptability of a new ABHR (EVO9; Ecolab) in healthcar...

    Authors: Aline Wolfensberger, Nina Durisch, Juliane Mertin, Evelyne Ajdler-Schaeffler and Hugo Sax
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:18
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  26. Multi-drug resistance (MDR) in Gram-negative organisms is an alarming problem in the world. MDR and extensively-drug resistance (XDR) is in increasing trend due to the production of different types of beta (β)...

    Authors: Shamshul Ansari, Hari Prasad Nepal, Rajendra Gautam, Sony Shrestha, Puja Neopane, Ganga Gurung and Moti Lal Chapagain
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:15
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  27. Antimicrobial use for growth promotion in food animal production is now widespread. A major concern is the rise of antimicrobial resistance and the subsequent impact on human health. The antimicrobials of conc...

    Authors: Vikram Krishnasamy, Joachim Otte and Ellen Silbergeld
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae are often susceptible in vitro to β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor (BLBLI) combination antibiotics, but their use has been limited by concerns of...

    Authors: Patrick N A Harris, Mo Yin, Roland Jureen, Jonathan Chew, Jaminah Ali, Stuart Paynter, David L Paterson and Paul A Tambyah
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:14
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  30. Updates on the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance bacterial pathogens is important. This is because the spread of multidrug resistant enterobacteriaceae (MDRE) and recently carbapenemase producing enterobac...

    Authors: Setegn Eshetie, Chandrashekhar Unakal, Aschalew Gelaw, Birhanu Ayelign, Mengistu Endris and Feleke Moges
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:12
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  31. The Netherlands is known for a stringent search and destroy policy to prevent spread of MRSA. In the hospital setting, livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) is frequently found in patients coming from the high d...

    Authors: Nienke van de Sande-Bruinsma, Maurine A Leverstein van Hall, Maria Janssen, Nynke Nagtzaam, Sander Leenders, Sabine C de Greeff and Peter M Schneeberger
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:11
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  32. Nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with increased infection risk, yet colonization and infection isolates are rarely compared within the same study. The objec...

    Authors: Kalyani E Eko, Brett M Forshey, Margaret Carrel, Marin L Schweizer, Eli N Perencevich and Tara C Smith
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:10
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  33. 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: Katrin Zurfluh, Magdalena T Nüesch-Inderbinen, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, Herbert Hächler and Roger Stephan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:9
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  34. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) have become a major problem for healthcare systems worldwide. While the first reports from European hospitals described the introduction of CPE from endemic cou...

    Authors: Axel Kola, Brar Piening, Ulrich-Frank Pape, Wilfried Veltzke-Schlieker, Martin Kaase, Christine Geffers, Bertram Wiedenmann and Petra Gastmeier
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:8
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  35. In all European countries, hospital-acquired infections caused by Gram-negative multidrug-resistant microorganisms (GN-MDRO) are a major health threat, as these pathogens cannot be adequately treated anymore, ...

    Authors: Jan Müller, Andreas Voss, Robin Köck, Bhanu Sinha, John W Rossen, Martin Kaase, Martin Mielke, Inka Daniels-Haardt, Annette Jurke, Ron Hendrix, Jan A Kluytmans, Marjolein F Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Matthias Pulz, Jörg Herrmann, Winfried V Kern, Constanze Wendt…
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  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 2014.

    Authors: Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:6
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  37. More knowledge is needed about task intensity in relation to hand hygiene in the operating room during anesthetic care in order to choose effective improvement strategies. The aim of this study was to explore ...

    Authors: Veronika Megeus, Kerstin Nilsson, Jon Karlsson, Bengt I Eriksson and Annette Erichsen Andersson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Surveillance and isolation for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a controversial topic, one that causes heated debate and appears to be surrounded by both politics...

    Authors: Kevin T Kavanagh, Lindsay E Calderon and Daniel M Saman
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Infections due to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli (RGNB) in critically ill patients have been reported to be associated with increased morbidity and costs and only a few studies have been done in As...

    Authors: Anupama Vasudevan, Babar Irfan Memon, Amartya Mukhopadhyay, Jialiang Li and Paul Ananth Tambyah
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Limited knowledge of the local molecular epidemiology and the paucity of new effective antibiotics has resulted in an immense challenge in the control and treatment of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobact...

    Authors: Jocelyn Teo, Tze-Peng Lim, Li-Yang Hsu, Thean-Yen Tan, Suranthran Sasikala, Pei-Yun Hon, Andrea L Kwa and Anucha Apisarnthanarak
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. The emergence and persistence of antimicrobial resistance is driven by varied factors including the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and variable drug efficacy and presents a major threat to the control of in...

    Authors: Sylvia Omulo, Samuel M Thumbi, M Kariuki Njenga and Douglas R Call
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2015 4:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli cause up to 10% of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). We report changes in ESBL prevalence among CAUTIs in an adult acute care...

    Authors: Joseph T Spadafino, Bevin Cohen, Jianfang Liu and Elaine Larson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:39
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  43. Surveillance data of antibiotic use are increasingly being used for benchmarking purposes, but there is a lack of studies dealing with how hospital- and patient-related factors affect antibiotic utilization in...

    Authors: Jon Birger Haug, Dag Berild, Mette Walberg and Åsmund Reikvam
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Current recommendations indicate that patients who are coughing and have multidrug resistant microorganisms (MDROs) in their sputum are considered to be shedders and should be cared for in single room isolatio...

    Authors: Magda Diab-Elschahawi, Luigi Segagni Lusignani, Peter Starzengruber, Dieter Mitteregger, Andrea Wagner, Ojan Assadian and Elisabeth Presterl
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:38
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  45. Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonized patients are likely to receive VRE targeted Gram-positive antibiotics and may not be de-escalated appropriately once final cultures are available. A retrospective...

    Authors: Elizabeth Short, John Esterly, Michael Postelnick, Jeannie Ong and Milena McLaughlin
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:37
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  46. Clinically important Gram-positive and -negative isolates were collected from patients in France between 2004 and 2012 as a part of the Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial.

    Authors: Vincent Cattoir and Michael J Dowzicky
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a nosocomial non-fermenting gram-negative bacillus that has an increasing prevalence in health care settings, especially in intensive care environments. While it has long been re...

    Authors: Stephanie Ming Young, Gopal Lingam and Paul Anantharajah Tambyah
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:35
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. The purpose of this review is to examine studies that have assessed the association between hand hygiene enhancement and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates and to explore controversies surro...

    Authors: Kalisvar Marimuthu, Didier Pittet and Stephan Harbarth
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:34
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. Antibiotic resistance is a global threat to patient safety and care. In response, hospitals start antibiotic stewardship programs to optimise antibiotic use. Expert-based guidelines recommend strategies to imp...

    Authors: Maarten van Limburg, Bhanu Sinha, Jerome R Lo-Ten-Foe and Julia EWC van Gemert-Pijnen
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Increasing rates of resistant and multidrug-resistant (MDR) P. aeruginosa in hospitalized patients constitute a major public health threat. We present a systematic review of the clinical and economic impact of th...

    Authors: Dilip Nathwani, Gowri Raman, Katherine Sulham, Meghan Gavaghan and Vandana Menon
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:32
    Content type: Research Published on:
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