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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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