Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Tuberculosis infection prevention and control in rural Papua New Guinea: an evaluation using the infection prevention and control assessment framework	145
The state of hand rub dispensers in healthcare settings – a multicenter assessment in 19 German healthcare facilities	117
Characterizing the bioburden of ESBL-producing organisms in a neonatal unit using chromogenic culture media: a feasible and efficient environmental sampling method	92
Faecal microbiota transplantation reduces amounts of antibiotic resistance genes in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms	84
Active surveillance testing to reduce transmission of carbapenem-resistant, gram-negative bacteria in intensive care units: a pragmatic, randomized cross-over trial	76
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	73
Effectiveness of chlorhexidine in preventing infections among patients undergoing cardiac surgeries: a meta-analysis and systematic review	72
Risk of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019: comparison between single- and multiple-occupancy rooms	52
Exploring the use of cluster analysis to assess antibiotic stewardship in critically-ill neonates in a low resource setting	51
Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study	42
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study	40
Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?	39
Contact time has limited impact on the efficacy of disinfectant towelettes when tested under conditions reflective of realistic use	38
Prevalence of and factors associated with inappropriate Clostridioides difficile testing in a teaching hospital in Korea	36
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales sepsis following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: risk factors for 30-day all-cause mortality and the development of a nomogram based on a retrospe	35
Lower risk of bloodstream infections for peripherally inserted central catheters compared to central venous catheters in critically ill patients	35
Genome profiling of uropathogenic E. coli from strictly defined community-acquired UTI in paediatric patients: a multicentric study	34
Extended spectrum and metalo beta lactamase producing gram negative bacterial pathogens from cockroaches collected at hospital, Southern Ethiopia	34
Evaluation of the implementation of WHO infection prevention and control core components in Turkish health care facilities: results from a WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IP	34
Evaluation of a novel surface-coating formulation with time-extended antimicrobial activity for healthcare environment disinfection	31
A pseudo-outbreak of MRSA due to laboratory contamination related to MRSA carriage of a laboratory staff member	31
Healthcare institutions’ recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study	31
Implementing intranasal povidone-iodine in the orthopedic trauma surgery setting to prevent surgical site infections: a qualitative study of healthcare provider perspectives	30
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	30
Antimicrobial use among paediatric inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2017/2018	30

Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review	30
Virus matrix interference on assessment of virucidal activity of high-touch surfaces designed to prevent hospital-acquired infections	29
Abstracts from the 6th international conference on prevention & infection control (ICPIC 2021)	28
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	28
Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	28
Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers	27
Pharmacies and use of antibiotics: a cross sectional study in 19 Arab countries	27
Contextual barriers to infection prevention and control program implementation in hospitals in Latin America: a mixed methods evaluation	27
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia	27
Nurses’ contribution to antimicrobial stewardship: business as usual?	26
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (November 2019–June 2021)	26
A multicentric survey and single-centre observational study of usage behaviour of sinks in intensive care: training is needed to minimize risk	26
Staphylococcus aureus - selective reporting of antibiogram results and its impact on antibiotic use: Interventional study with a reference group on the effect of switching from non-selective to select	25
Developing a framework for regular and sustainable qualitative assessment of antibiotic use in Korean medical institutions: a Delphi study	25
Challenges and success stories of the implementation of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship strategies: proceedings of the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety, 2023	25
The accuracy of fully-automated algorithms for the surveillance of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection in hospitalised patients	24
Effectiveness of postoperative oral administration of cephalexin and metronidazole on surgical site infection among obese women undergoing cesarean section: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-control	24
Determinants of orthopedic physicians’ self-reported compliance with surgical site infection prevention: results of the WACH-trial’s pilot survey on COM-B factors in a German university hospital	24
Antibiotic consumption in long-term care facilities in Poland and other European countries in 2017	24
Indwelling time of peripherally inserted central catheters and incidence of bloodstream infections in haematology patients: a cohort study	23
Barriers to infection prevention and control in long-term care/assisted living settings in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey	23
A qualitative study of barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in Indonesian hospitals: governance, competing interests, cost, and structural vulnerability	23
Barriers to rational antibiotic prescription in Iran: a descriptive qualitative study	23
The danger of the toxicity and inefficacy of alcohol-based hand rubs in Iran during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study	23
Carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales colonisation status does not lead to more frequent admissions: a linked patient study	22
Decontaminating N95/FFP2 masks for reuse during the COVID-19 epidemic: a systematic review	22
Resident-, prescriber-, and facility-level factors associated with antibiotic use in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of quantitative studies	22
Evaluation of a multimodal intervention to promote rational antibiotic use in primary care	22
Community drug retail outlet staff’s knowledge, attitudes and practices towards non-prescription antibiotics use and antibiotic resistance in the Amhara region, Ethiopia with a focus on non-urban town	22
Where to from here? Identifying and prioritising future directions for addressing drug-resistant infection in Australia	21
Estimating the population-level prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant enteric bacteria from latrine samples	20
Gram-negative bacterial infections in surgical intensive care unit patients following abdominal surgery: high mortality associated with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection	20
Prevalence and characterization of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria isolated from febrile hospitalized patients in central Ethiopia	20
Are there reasons behind high Handrub consumption? A French National in-depth qualitative assessment	19
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	19
Genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from the West African Dwarf (WAD) goat in Nigeria	19
A mandatory indication-registration tool in hospital electronic medical records enabling systematic evaluation and benchmarking of the quality of antimicrobial use: a feasibility study	19
Beyond the operating room: do hospital characteristics have an impact on surgical site infections after colorectal surgery? A systematic review	19
Effect of temperature on Escherichia coli bloodstream infection in a nationwide population-based study of incidence and resistance	18
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	18
Genetic mechanisms and correlated risk factors of antimicrobial-resistant ESKAPEE pathogens isolated in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia	18
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	18
First nationwide survey of infection prevention and control among healthcare facilities in Japan: impact of the national regulatory system	18
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	18
Clinical significance and burden of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) colonization acquisition in hospitalized patients	18
Enhancing clinical microbiology for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance implementation in Africa	18
Baseline study for improving diagnostic stewardship at secondary health care facilities in Nigeria	18
Impact of sterile gloving during proximal manipulation of central line catheter hub: the multicenter observational study CleanHandPROX	18
Health system barriers to the implementation of the national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam: a scoping review	17
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Egyptians towards antibiotic use in the community: can we do better?	17

Non-prescriptionxx antibiotic use for people aged 15 years or older for cough in China: a community-based survey	17
Reported antibiotic use among patients in the multicenter ANDEMIA infectious diseases surveillance study in sub-saharan Africa	17
The effect of 100% single-occupancy rooms on acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and intra-hospital patient transfers: a prospective before-and-after study	17
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	17
Trends in the antimicrobial susceptibility among Chinese neonates from 2012 to 2021: a multicenter study	17
Bacterial ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections: changing trends in antimicrobial susceptibility, a 7-year retrospective study from Pakistan	17
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	17
Closing the antimicrobial stewardship gap - a call for LMICs to embrace the global antimicrobial stewardship accreditation scheme	16
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	16
Oral vancomycin use and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: time-series analysis	16
Efficacy of mupirocin, neomycin and octenidine for nasal Staphylococcus aureus decolonisation: a retrospective cohort study	15
Bacterial contamination of mobile handwashing stations in hospital settings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	15
Health care systems administrators perspectives on antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control programs across three healthcare levels: a qualitative study	15
Temporal trends in antimicrobial resistance of medically important pathogens on Curaçao	15
Prevalence of meropenem-resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta‑analysis	15
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and its clinical implications in Ethiopia: a systematic review	15
Investigating environmental transmission to resolve a Bacillus cereus group outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit using core genome multilocus sequence typing	15
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	15
Clinically relevant sequence types of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae detected in Finnish wastewater in 2021–2022	15
Enhancing antimicrobial resistance surveillance and research: a systematic scoping review on the possibilities, yield and methods of data linkage studies	15
The potential for the double risk of rabies and antimicrobial resistance in a high rabies endemic setting: detection of antibiotic resistance in bacterial isolates from infected dog bite wounds in Uga	15
Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	15
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	14
The environmental impact and sustainability of infection control practices: a systematic scoping review	14
Effectiveness of annual influenza campaigns and vaccination in reducing influenza burden in nursing homes of Canton Vaud in Switzerland	14
Implementation of the Infection Risk Scan (IRIS) in nine hospitals in the Belgian-Dutch border region (i-4-1-Health project)	14
International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control 2023	14
Microbiological trends and mortality risk factors of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an academic medical center 2015–2020	14
Surveillance of catheter-associated bloodstream infections: development and validation of a fully automated algorithm	14
Cross-site collaboration on infection prevention and control research—room for improvement? A 7-year comparative study in five European countries	14
Activity of antimicrobial examination gloves under realistic conditions: challenge not fulfilled	14
Knowledge, attitudes, and readiness about critical antimicrobial resistant organisms among healthcare workers at colonial war memorial hospital in Fiji: a pre and post intervention study	13
Hip prosthesis and colon surgery, a decade of surveillance on surgical site infections in Italy, a prospective cohort study: rates, trends, and disease burden in DALYs	13
Colonization of patients hospitalized at orthopedic department of tertiary hospital in Uganda with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacterales	13
Epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales infection in kidney transplant recipients	13
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	13
Empiric antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit based on the risk of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection: a single-centre case‒control study of blood culture results in Japan	13
Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach	13
Mind the gap: knowledge, attitudes and perceptions on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities for people with disabilities	13
Obesity and the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Appropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance: knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of medical students and their needs and preferences for learning	13
Uncovering the spread of drug-resistant bacteria through next-generation sequencing based surveillance: transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales by a contaminated duode	13
Validation of the first computerized indicator for orthopaedic surgical site infections in France: ISO-ORTHO	12
The surgical interval between robot-assisted SEEG and epilepsy resection surgery is an influencing factor of SSI	12
Rate of nosocomial MRSA transmission evaluated via contact screening	12
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	12
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	12
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	12
Low frequency of community-acquired bacterial co-infection in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 based on clinical, radiological and microbiological criteria: a retrospective cohort study	12
Under Armour – Use of personal protective equipment for simulated CPR of COVID-19 patients: an observational study	12
Assessment of antimicrobial stewardship programmes and antibiotic use among children admitted to two hospitals in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study	12
Patient and ward related risk factors in a multi-ward nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19: Outbreak investigation and matched case–control study	11
Correction: A multi-institutional exploration of emergency medicine physicians’ attitudes and behaviours on antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	11
WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators with a focus on antibiotics utilization patterns at outpatient department of Adigrat general hospital, Tigrai, Ethiopia: a retrospective cross-sectional study	11
A qualitative study of infection prevention and control practices in the maternal units of two Ghanaian hospitals	11
Antimicrobial prescribing in French nursing homes and interventions for antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	11
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	11
Assessment of antibiotic resistance changes during the Covid-19 pandemic in northeast of Iran during 2020–2022: an epidemiological study	11
The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods	11
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	11
Correction: The effect of 100% single-occupancy rooms on acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and intra-hospital patient transfers: a prospective before-and-after	11
Gamified antimicrobial decision support app (GADSA) changes antibiotics prescription behaviour in surgeons in Nigeria: a hospital-based pilot study	11
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	10
Assessing the potential for improved predictive capacity of antimicrobial resistance in outpatient Staphylococcus aureus isolates using seasonal and spatial antibiograms	10
Case report of the first cured patient with Mycobacterium Chimaera infection following cardiac valve replacement in the mainland of China	10
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation	10
Predictive performance of automated surveillance algorithms for intravascular catheter bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Are coveralls required as personal protective equipment during the management of COVID-19 patients?	10
Blood culture utilization and epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indonesian national referral hospital	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England	10
Patients exposed to vancomycin-resistant enterococci during in-hospital outbreaks in a low endemic setting: a proposal for risk-based screening	10
Teaching prudent antibiotic use on the go: a descriptive report on development, utilization and listener satisfaction of an educational podcast format for medical students and young professionals	10
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	10
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	9
Tanzanian primary healthcare workers’ experiences of antibiotic prescription and understanding of antibiotic resistance in common childhood infections: a qualitative phenomenographic study	9
Sequence type 17 is a predictor of subsequent bacteremia in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium-colonized patients: a retrospective cohort study	9
Small quantities of respiratory syncytial virus RNA only in large droplets around infants hospitalized with acute respiratory infections	9
Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19	9
Drivers of global media attention and representations for antimicrobial resistance risk: an analysis of online English and Chinese news media data, 2015–2018	9
Federated systems for automated infection surveillance: a perspective	9

Does continuity in nursing staff matter? A pilot study on correlation of central line-associated bloodstream infections and employee turnover	9
Effectiveness and sustainability of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in the University Hospital Bouaké, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Risk factors for norovirus infection in healthcare workers during nosocomial outbreaks: a cross-sectional study	9
Admission screening and cohort care decrease carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae in Vietnamese pediatric ICU’s	9
Trends in prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolated from patients with community- and healthcare-associated bacteriuria: results from 2014 to 2020 in an urban	9
Education level and misuse of antibiotics in the general population: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	9
Investigation of possible transmission of a susceptible microorganism through a contaminated duodenoscope; a case report	9
Predictors of physicians’ intentions to use clinical practice guidelines on antimicrobial in tertiary general hospitals of China: a structural equation modeling approach	9
Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one’s hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany	9
Provision of safe patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic despite shared patient rooms in a tertiary hospital	9