Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	161
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	127
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	108
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	104
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	86
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	73
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	72
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	51
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	51
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	47
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	47
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	44
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	43
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	38
Virtual reality for education on infection prevention and control: the impact on medical students’ knowledge, attitudes and practices	38
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	37
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	36
Routes of transmission of VIM-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the adult intensive care unit-analysis of 9 years of surveillance at a university hospital using a mathematical model	35
Development of a strain-specific PCR as a diagnostic tool for surveillance, detection, and monitoring of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during outbreak	35
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	34
Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	34
Efficacy and safety of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection by inhibiting catheter bacterial biofilm formation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	34
SARS-CoV-2 risk in household contacts of healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study	33
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	33
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	31

Adherence to national recommendations for the control of multidrug-resistant microorganisms in Swiss acute care hospitals – an updated national survey	31
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	31
Description of a nationwide structure for monitoring nosocomial outbreaks of (highly resistant) microorganisms in the Netherlands: characteristics of outbreaks in 2012–2021	30
Antibiotic utilisation and resistance over the first decade of nationally funded antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Singapore acute-care hospitals	30
Reasons for insufficient compliance with infection prevention and control measures in the intensive care unit: a qualitative study conducted in Türkiye in 2024	30
Risk factors and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections among patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the ICU: a cohort study from China	30
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus risk factors for hospital colonization in hematological patients: a matched case-control study	30
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	30
The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing	29
Prophylactic antimicrobials may not be needed to prevent surgical site infection after skin biopsy: a retrospective study	29
Tolerance of biofilm of a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae involved in a duodenoscopy-associated outbreak to the disinfectant used in reprocessing	28
Exploring drivers of self-treatment with antibiotics in three agricultural communities of northern Tanzania	28
Establishing carbapenem resistant organism surveillance, prevention, and control in a middle-income country: implementation of a hospital-based program in Fiji	26
Automated surveillance for surgical site infections (SSI) in hospitals and surveillance networks–expert perspectives for implementation	26
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	25
“What if the patient has a severe reaction, and it is my fault?” A qualitative study exploring factors for sustainable implementation of penicillin allergy delabelling	25
Pandemic clone USA300 in a Brazilian hospital: detection of an emergent lineage among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bloodstream infections	25
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	25
Detecting inappropriate total duration of antimicrobial therapy using semi-automated surveillance	24
Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in India between 2000 and 2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
External validation of the ICU-CARB score to predict carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria carriage in critically ill patients upon ICU admission: a multicenter analysis	24
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on antibiotic use in Canadian primary care: a matched-cohort study using EMR data	24
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	23
Antiseptics and mupirocin resistance in clinical, environmental, and colonizing coagulase negative Staphylococcus isolates	23
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Efficacy of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for early adaptation of antibiotic therapy in high-risk neutropenic patients	23
The effect of five versus two personnel on bacterial air contamination during preparation of sterile surgical goods in the operating room: a randomised controlled trial	23
Isolation and identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae phage ΦK2046: optimizing its antibacterial potential in combination with chlorhexidine	23
Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years	23
Introduction and spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) at a German tertiary care medical center from 2004 until 2010: a retrospective whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of the m	22
Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future	21
Infection risk of peripheral intravenous catheters: meta-synthesis of 18 prospective studies with 14,606 catheters	21
Factors associated with hand washing effectiveness: an institution-based observational study	21
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	21
Point prevalence study of antibiotic appropriateness and possibility of early discharge from hospital among patients treated with antibiotics in a Swiss University Hospital	20
Best practice guidance for antibiotic audit and feedback interventions in primary care: a modified Delphi study from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial resistance: Primary Care Antibiot	20
Patterns and outcomes of health-care associated infections in the medical wards at Bugando medical centre: a longitudinal cohort study	20
Healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitude and practices on infection prevention and control in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Faranah regional hospital and associated healthcare centers, Gu	20
Rinse, gel, and foam – is there any evidence for a difference in their effectiveness in preventing infections?	20
External validation of semi-automated surveillance algorithms for deep surgical site infections after colorectal surgery in an independent country	20
Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
A hospital-wide outbreak of IMI-17-producing Enterobacter ludwigii in an Israeli hospital	19
NDM-1 plasmid clustering reflects clonal transmission of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147 in four hospitals in Berlin, Germany	19
Clean Hospitals Day 2024: the technical domains of healthcare environmental hygiene	19
Pattern and appropriateness of antimicrobial prescription for acute respiratory tract infection in primary healthcare settings in Ethiopia	19
The neglected model validation of antimicrobial resistance transmission models – a systematic review	18
Drug-resistance characteristics, genetic diversity, and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 2019 to 2021 in Sichuan, China	18
COVID-19 patient and personal safety – lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and the way to the next normal	18
A multi-institutional exploration of emergency medicine physicians’ attitudes and behaviours on antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	18
Correction: Healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitude and practices on infection prevention and control in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Faranah regional hospital and associated healthcare	18

Surgical site infection and antimicrobial use following caesarean section at QECH in Blantyre, Malawi: a prospective cohort study	18
Predictors of early and interim culture un-conversion in multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective multi-center cohort study in China	18
Antimicrobial resistance in the Nordics: mapping existing surveillance systems and assessing the impact of COVID-19 using regression models	18
Baseline evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO) infection prevention and control (IPC) core components in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)	18
Environmental contamination across multiple hospital departments with multidrug-resistant bacteria pose an elevated risk of healthcare-associated infections in Kenyan hospitals	17
The prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Antibiotic-resistance in medically important bacteria isolated from commercial herbal medicines in Africa from 2000 to 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Perceptions and attitudes about antibiotic resistance in the general public and general practitioners in France	17
Rapid and actionable nasal-swab screening supports antimicrobial stewardship in patients with pneumonia: a prospective study	17
Effect of povidone-iodine and propanol-based mecetronium ethyl sulphate on antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus	17
Duration of central venous catheter placement and central line-associated bloodstream infections after the adoption of prevention bundles: a two-year retrospective study	17
Success and failures in MRSA infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) to trace the spread of pathogens in healthcare	17
Correction: Development and application of a risk nomogram for the prediction of risk of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in neuro-intensive care unit: a mixed method study	16
Infection prevention and control in Indonesian hospitals: identification of strengths, gaps, and challenges	16
Management and microbial monitoring of final rinse water for flexible endoscopes in 290 hospitals in Jiangsu Province, China: a multicenter cross-sectional study	16
Impact of surgical field disinfection on vaginal microbiome in transvaginal urogynecological surgery: a prospective cohort study	16
Healthcare‑associated infections in intensive care unit patients with and without COVID-19: a single center prospective surveillance study	16
Identifying excessive length of antibiotic treatment duration for hospital-acquired infections: a semi-automated approach to support antimicrobial stewardship	16
Surveillance of close contacts of patients with infectious tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study	16
Prevalence and predictors of self-medication with antibiotics in selected urban and rural districts of the Dodoma region, Central Tanzania: a cross-sectional study	16
Comparison of disease and economic burden between MRSA infection and MRSA colonization in a university hospital: a retrospective data integration study	16
Electronic monitoring of doffing using video surveillance to minimise error rate and increase safety at Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility	16
The ICU-CARB score: a novel clinical scoring system to predict carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria carriage in critically ill patients upon ICU admission	16
Wastewater-based surveillance in Italy leading to the first detection of mcr-10-positive Klebsiella quasipneumoniae	16
Use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials for more than 72 h and the detection of multidrug-resistant bacteria in Japanese intensive care units: a multicenter retrospective cohort study	15
A nationwide survey on the implementation of infection prevention and control components in 1442 hospitals in the Republic of Korea: comparison to the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment F	15
Antibiotic consumption in hospitals in humanitarian settings in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan	15
Source-tracking Klebsiella outbreaks in premature infants using a novel amplicon fingerprinting method	15
Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study	15
Multicenter exploration of microbial communities in hospital toilets reveals: antibiotic exposure in nosocomial settings selects for Enterococcus over commensal taxa	15
Magnitude and determinants of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in dentistry: a nation-wide study	14
An outbreak of blaKPC−4- and blaVIM−1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella variicola at a single hospital in South Korea	14
Infection prevention strategies are highly protective in COVID-19 units while main risks to healthcare professionals come from coworkers and the community	14
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia	14
Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force	14
Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study	14
The need to improve antimicrobial susceptibility testing capacity in Ugandan health facilities: insights from a surveillance primer	14
A multicentric survey and single-centre observational study of usage behaviour of sinks in intensive care: training is needed to minimize risk	14
Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study	14
Surgical site infection surveillance in German hospitals: a national survey to determine the status quo of digitalization	14
Outbreak with OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a COVID-19 ICU cohort: unraveling routes of transmission	14
Extended spectrum and metalo beta lactamase producing gram negative bacterial pathogens from cockroaches collected at hospital, Southern Ethiopia	14
Integrated assessment of antimicrobial stewardship in carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae prevalent hospitals in China: a multidisciplinary surveillance network-based survey	14
Assessment of dry-fogged hydrogen peroxide as an “untact” room disinfection automation system for rapid terminal decontamination of a single isolation room in a healthcare institution	13
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study	13
Evaluation of the feasibility, appropriateness, and acceptability of an environmental cleaning program improvement toolkit at a tertiary care hospital in Nigeria	13
Development and evaluation of a massive open online course (MOOC) to teach medical students the prudent use of antibiotics	13
A qualitative study of barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in Indonesian hospitals: governance, competing interests, cost, and structural vulnerability	13
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Egyptians towards antibiotic use in the community: can we do better?	13
Protracted outbreaks of VIM-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a surgical intensive care unit in France, January 2018 to June 2024	13
Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers	12
Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review	12
Effect of temperature on Escherichia coli bloodstream infection in a nationwide population-based study of incidence and resistance	12
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	12
Impact of vancomycin use trend change due to the availability of alternative antibiotics on the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced vancomycin susceptibility: a 14-year retrospective stud	12
Healthcare institutions’ recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study	12
Epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales infection in kidney transplant recipients	12
Temporal trends in antimicrobial resistance of medically important pathogens on Curaçao	12
Parental involvement in infection prevention and control in low- and middle-income country neonatal units: a scoping review	12
Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?	12
Cross-site collaboration on infection prevention and control research—room for improvement? A 7-year comparative study in five European countries	12
Incremental costs of hospital-acquired infections in COVID-19 patients in an adult intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital from a low-resource setting	12
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	12
What fuels suboptimal care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related infections in hospitals? A qualitative study of decision-making among Spanish nurses	11
Microbiological trends and mortality risk factors of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an academic medical center 2015–2020	11
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	11
Pre-COVID-19 international travel and admission to hospital when back home: travel behavior, carriage of highly resistant microorganisms, and risk perception of patients admitted to a large tertiary c	11
Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene facilitate the implementation of the WHO hand hygiene multimodal improvement strategy in Japan: evidence for the role of local trainers, adaptation, and sustainabili	11
Investigating the implementation of infection prevention and control practices in neonatal care across country income levels: a systematic review	11
Obesity and the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	11
Implementation of the WHO core components of an infection prevention and control programme in two sub-saharan African acute health-care facilities: a mixed methods study	11
A practice guide on antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes	11
Antimicrobial prescribing in French nursing homes and interventions for antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	11
Correction: Review and analysis of the overlapping threats of carbapenem and polymyxin resistant E. Coli and Klebsiella in Africa	11
Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach	11
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation	11
Increase in PVC-BSI during the second COVID-19 pandemic year: analysis of catheter and patient characteristics	10
State of infection prevention and control in Austrian hospitals: data from 81 hospitals completing the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF)	10

Active surveillance of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria to guide antibiotic therapy: a single-center prospective observational study	10
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	10
Staphylococcus aureus screening and preoperative decolonisation with Mupirocin and Chlorhexidine to reduce the risk of surgical site infections in orthopaedic surgery: a pre-post study	10
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	10
Exploring the perioperative infection control practices & incidence of surgical site infections in rural India	10
Rapid identification of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit by third-generation long-read nanopore sequencing	10
Understanding Serratia bockelmannii transmission during a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak: a combined genotyping and case–control study	10
Clinical factors associated with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) related bloodstream infections: a single centre retrospective cohort	10
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli in urinary tract and blood stream infections: results from a nationwide surveillance network, Finland, 2018	10
Level of implementation of multimodal strategies for infection prevention and control interventions and prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Northern Italy	10
Value of collaborative investigation by hospital infection control, public health services and a national reference laboratory during an increase in puerperal sepsis	10
Diagnostic performance of the direct stool Xpert Carba-R assay in active surveillance of carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales	10
Microbiologically confirmed infections and antibiotic-resistance in a national surveillance study of hospitalised patients who died with COVID-19, Italy 2020–2021	10
Sepsis: emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopian referral hospitals	10