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  1. The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), particularly multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB, is a major public health problem. The purpose of this review is to describe th...

    Authors: Fantahun Biadglegne, Ulrich Sack and Arne C Rodloff
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:31
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is relatively common in mechanically-ventilated children, but there is a wide variation in reported VAP rates, depending on settings and geographical regions. Surveillance...

    Authors: Mohammad Hassan Aelami, Mojtaba Lotfi and Walter Zingg
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:30
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Bacterial surface contamination contributes to transmission of nosocomial infections. Chemical cleansers used to control surface contamination are often toxic and incorrectly implemented. Additional non-toxic ...

    Authors: Ethan E Mann, Dipankar Manna, Michael R Mettetal, Rhea M May, Elisa M Dannemiller, Kenneth K Chung, Anthony B Brennan and Shravanthi T Reddy
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Rates of invasive vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) in the USA remains on the rise. Efforts to control vancomycin use and nosocomial transmission have had limited success in halting the spread of this patho...

    Authors: Maria Cecilia Di Pentima, Shannon Chan, Carol Briody, Michelle Power and Jobayer Hossain
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:29
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Generic epidemiological differences between extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESBL-KP), are poorly defined. Nonetheless, defining such differe...

    Authors: Joshua T Freeman, Joseph Rubin, Gary N McAuliffe, Gisele Peirano, Sally A Roberts, Dragana Drinković and Johann DD Pitout
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. We developed a standardised method to assess the quality of infection control in Dutch Nursing Home (NH), based on a cross-sectional survey that visualises the results. The method was called the Infection cont...

    Authors: Ina Willemsen, Jolande Nelson-Melching, Yvonne Hendriks, Ans Mulders, Sandrien Verhoeff, Marjolein Kluytmans-Vandenbergh and Jan Kluytmans
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Surgical site infection (SSI) is the second most common infectious complication after urinary tract infection following a delivery by caesarean section (CS). At Bugando Medical Centre there has no study docume...

    Authors: Filbert J Mpogoro, Stephen E Mshana, Mariam M Mirambo, Benson R Kidenya, Balthazar Gumodoka and Can Imirzalioglu
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Although the presence of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are extensively documented in North and South America. CPE have not been reported from Curacao. However, recently intercontinental spre...

    Authors: Sandra Erkens-Hulshof, Liane Virginia-Cova, Willemien van Dijk, Juliette Severin, Neil Woodford, Willem Melchers and Patrick Sturm
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:24
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  9. Urinary tract infection attributed to the use of an indwelling urinary catheter is one of the most common infections acquired by patients in health care facilities. As biofilm ultimately develops on all of the...

    Authors: Lindsay E Nicolle
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important nosocomial pathogen but little is known about its circulation in hospitals in developing countries. We aimed to describe carriage of S.aureus amo...

    Authors: Alexander M Aiken, Irene M Mutuku, Artur J Sabat, Viktoria Akkerboom, Jonah Mwangi, J Anthony G Scott, Susan C Morpeth, Alexander W Friedrich and Hajo Grundmann
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:22
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  11. In the context of a methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) outbreak, we aimed to improve our knowledge of S. aureus (SA) epidemiology in the neonatal care center (NCC) of a tertiary care teaching ho...

    Authors: Sara Romano-Bertrand, Anne Filleron, Renaud Mesnage, Anne Lotthé, Marie Noëlle Didelot, Lydie Burgel, Estelle Jumas Bilak, Gilles Cambonie and Sylvie Parer
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Surveillance blood cultures are often obtained in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients for detection of bloodstream infection. The major aims of this retrospective cohort study were to determine ...

    Authors: Sameeh S Ghazal, Michael P Stevens, Gonzalo M Bearman and Michael B Edmond
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Observational studies rarely account for confounding by indication, whereby empiric antibiotics initiated for signs and symptoms of infection prior to the diagnosis of infection are then viewed as risk factors...

    Authors: Rupak Datta, Ken Kleinman, Sheryl Rifas-Shiman, Hilary Placzek, Julie Lankiewicz, Richard Platt and Susan S Huang
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:19
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  14. The burden of disease due to S. pneumoniae (pneumococcus), particularly pneumonia, remains high despite the widespread use of vaccines. Drug resistant strains complicate clinical treatment and may increase costs....

    Authors: Courtney A Reynolds, Jonathan A Finkelstein, G Thomas Ray, Matthew R Moore and Susan S Huang
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) found that Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with up to 375,000 infections and 23,000 deaths in the United States. It is a major ...

    Authors: Kevin T Kavanagh, Lindsay E Calderon, Daniel M Saman and Said K Abusalem
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  16. Data on nosocomial infections in hospitals in low-income countries are scarce and often inconsistent. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of nosocomial infections and antimicrobial dru...

    Authors: Théodora Angèle Ahoyo, Honoré Sourou Bankolé, Franck Mansour Adéoti, Aimé Attolou Gbohoun, Sibylle Assavèdo, Marcellin Amoussou-Guénou, Dorothée Akoko Kindé-Gazard and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. The current data regarding the correlation between the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clones carried in the nasal cavity and digestive tract are inadequate.

    Authors: Akihiro Nakao, Teruyo Ito, Xiao Han, Yu Jie Lu, Ken Hisata, Atsushi Tsujiwaki, Nobuaki Matsunaga, Mitsutaka Komatsu, Keiichi Hiramatsu and Toshiaki Shimizu
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:14
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  20. A recent analysis demonstrated that infectious diseases (ID) specialty intervention was associated with decreased mortality and hospital readmission. These benefits were greatest if involvement occurred within...

    Authors: Haley J Morrill, Melissa M Gaitanis and Kerry L LaPlante
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:12
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  22. There are few reports on the feasibility of conducting successful infection control (IC) interventions in rural community hospitals.

    Authors: Kurt B Stevenson, Katie Searle, Grace Curry, John M Boyce, Stephan Harbarth, Gregory J Stoddard and Matthew H Samore
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection control and reduces rates of healthcare associated infection. There are limited data evaluating hand hygiene adherence and hand hygiene campaign effect in resource-...

    Authors: Karen Schmitz, Russell R Kempker, Admasu Tenna, Edward Stenehjem, Engida Abebe, Lia Tadesse, Ermias Kacha Jirru and Henry M Blumberg
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Health care worker (HCW) colonization with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a documented cause of hospital outbreaks and contributes to ongoing transmission. At Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) it ...

    Authors: Julie Hart, Keryn J Christiansen, Rosie Lee, Christopher H Heath, Geoffrey W Coombs and J Owen Robinson
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. The role of the hospital environment in transmission of ESBL-Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESBL-KP) and ESBL-Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) is poorly defined. Recent data however suggest that in the hospital setting, ESBL-K...

    Authors: Joshua T Freeman, Jessica Nimmo, Eva Gregory, Audrey Tiong, Mary De Almeida, Gary N McAuliffe and Sally A Roberts
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Failures to follow recommendations for reprocessing of surgical instruments may place patients at risk for exposure to pathogenic microorganisms. When such failures occur, medical facilities often face conside...

    Authors: Curtis J Donskey, Marian Yowler, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Sirisha Kundrapu, Robert A Salata and William A Rutala
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:4
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  29. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control would like to thank the following colleagues for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for the journal in 2013.

    Authors: Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:1
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  30. In the Netherlands a successful MRSA Search and Destroy policy is applied in healthcare institutes. We determined the effect of an adjustment in the MRSA Search and Destroy policy for patients in the outpatien...

    Authors: Miranda ML van Rijen and Jan AJW Kluytmans
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Multiple observational studies have associated antiviral treatment of patients hospitalized with influenza with improved outcome, including reduced mortality. During the 2009–2010 H1N1 pandemic increased use o...

    Authors: Geoffrey Taylor, Robyn Mitchell, Rachel Fernandes, Allison McGeer, Charles Frenette, Kathryn N Suh, Alice Wong, Kevin Katz, Krista Wilkinson, Barbara Amihod and Denise Gravel
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2014 3:2
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  32. To describe the clinical epidemiology, environmental surveillance and infection control interventions undertaken in a six-year persistence of bla-IMP-4 metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae wi...

    Authors: Grace HY Leung, Timothy J Gray, Elaine YL Cheong, Peter Haertsch and Thomas Gottlieb
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:35
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. A recently modified World Health Organization (WHO) Formulation I was examined as 80% and 97% solutions against poliovirus type 1, adenovirus type 5 and murine norovirus according to the new European Norm prEN...

    Authors: Jochen Steinmann, Britta Becker, Birte Bischoff, Thomas Magulski, Joerg Steinmann and Eike Steinmann
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:34
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  34. We analyzed the impact associated with an intervention based on process control and performance feedback to decrease central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates.

    Authors: Soraya Cherifi, Michele Gerard, Sylvie Arias and Baudouin Byl
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now a global threat. Its emergence rests on antimicrobial overuse in humans and food-producing animals; globalization and suboptimal infection control facilitate its spread. W...

    Authors: Angela Huttner, Stephan Harbarth, Jean Carlet, Sara Cosgrove, Herman Goossens, Alison Holmes, Vincent Jarlier, Andreas Voss and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:31
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  37. According to French national recommendations, the detection of a patient colonized with glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) leads to interruption of new admissions and transfer of contact patients (CPs) t...

    Authors: Gabriel Birgand, Raymond Ruimy, Michael Schwarzinger, Isabelle Lolom, Gisèle Bendjelloul, Nadira Houhou, Laurence Armand-Lefevre, Antoine Andremont, Yazdan Yazdanpanah and Jean-Christophe Lucet
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:30
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  38. The optimal way for antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) to interact with existing infectious disease physician (IDP) services within the same institution is unknown. In our institution, IDPs and our pros...

    Authors: Chay Leng Yeo, Jia En Wu, Gladys Wei-Teng Chung, Douglas Su-Gin Chan, Hui Hiong Chen and Li Yang Hsu
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:29
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  39. Clinicians often prescribe antimicrobials for outpatient wound infections before culture results are known. Local or national MRSA rates may be considered when prescribing antimicrobials. If clinicians prescri...

    Authors: Marin L Schweizer, Eli N Perencevich, Michael R Eber, Xueya Cai, Michelle D Shardell, Nikolay Braykov and Ramanan Laxminarayan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. The number of bacteria recovered from a stainless steel coupon after touching a pigskin substrate with an examination glove coated on its outside with polyhexanide (PHMB), as compared to the number of bacteria...

    Authors: Johannes Leitgeb, Rupert Schuster, Aik-Hwee Eng, Bit-New Yee, Yee-Peng Teh, Verena Dosch and Ojan Assadian
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Published data to date have provided a limited comparison between non-microbiologic methods—particularly visual inspection—and a microbiologic comparator to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental cleaning...

    Authors: Graham M Snyder, Aleah D Holyoak, Katharine E Leary, Bernadette F Sullivan, Roger B Davis and Sharon B Wright
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of community and hospital acquired infections. One of the important sources of staphylococci for nosocomial infection is nasal carriage among hospital personnel. Emergence ...

    Authors: Agumas Shibabaw, Tamrat Abebe and Adane Mihret
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Nowadays Enterococcus faecium has become one of the most emerging and challenging nosocomial pathogens. The aim of this study was to determine risk factors in haematology patients who are at risk of an Enterococc...

    Authors: Xuewei Zhou, Jan P Arends, Lambert FR Span and Alexander W Friedrich
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae represent an increasing threat to public health and to the treatment of serious nosocomial infections. The aim of this study was to screen for the presence of carbapenem...

    Authors: Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen, Katrin Zurfluh, Herbert Hächler and Roger Stephan
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:23
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  45. Money is one of the most frequently passed items in the world. The aim of this study was to ascertain the survival status of bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Vancomycin- Resistant E...

    Authors: Habip Gedik, Timothy A Voss and Andreas Voss
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. While Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has come to prominence as major epidemics have occurred in North America and Europe over the recent decade, awareness and surveillance of CDI in Asia have remained poor...

    Authors: Deirdre A Collins, Peter M Hawkey and Thomas V Riley
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2:21
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Authors: G Kim, B Oh, JS Song, PG Choe, WB Park, HB Kim, N-J Kim, EC Kim and M-D Oh
    Citation: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013 2(Suppl 1):O47
    Content type: Oral presentation Published on:

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