Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	145
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	126
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	96
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	92
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	80
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	77
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	72
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	58
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	56
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	43
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	43
Development of a strain-specific PCR as a diagnostic tool for surveillance, detection, and monitoring of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during outbreak	41
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	41
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus risk factors for hospital colonization in hematological patients: a matched case-control study	40
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	39
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	37
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	36
Animal source food eating habits of outpatients with antimicrobial resistance in Bukavu, D.R. Congo	35
Sequence type 17 is a predictor of subsequent bacteremia in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium-colonized patients: a retrospective cohort study	35
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	35
Efficacy and safety of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection by inhibiting catheter bacterial biofilm formation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	32
SARS-CoV-2 risk in household contacts of healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study	32
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	31
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	31
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	31

Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	30
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	30
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	30
Investigation of possible transmission of a susceptible microorganism through a contaminated duodenoscope; a case report	30
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	29
Exploring drivers of self-treatment with antibiotics in three agricultural communities of northern Tanzania	29
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	29
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	29
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	29
Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in India between 2000 and 2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Tolerance of biofilm of a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae involved in a duodenoscopy-associated outbreak to the disinfectant used in reprocessing	28
Description of a nationwide structure for monitoring nosocomial outbreaks of (highly resistant) microorganisms in the Netherlands: characteristics of outbreaks in 2012–2021	27
Mechanical ventilation-associated pneumonia caused by Acinetobacter baumannii in Northeast China region: analysis of genotype and drug resistance of bacteria and patients’ clinical features over 7 yea	27
Automated surveillance for surgical site infections (SSI) in hospitals and surveillance networks–expert perspectives for implementation	26
Prophylactic antimicrobials may not be needed to prevent surgical site infection after skin biopsy: a retrospective study	26
“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	26
Antibiotic utilisation and resistance over the first decade of nationally funded antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Singapore acute-care hospitals	26
Pandemic clone USA300 in a Brazilian hospital: detection of an emergent lineage among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bloodstream infections	26
The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing	25
Antiseptics and mupirocin resistance in clinical, environmental, and colonizing coagulase negative Staphylococcus isolates	25
Factors associated with hand washing effectiveness: an institution-based observational study	25
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	25
Establishing carbapenem resistant organism surveillance, prevention, and control in a middle-income country: implementation of a hospital-based program in Fiji	25
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	25
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	24
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	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	23
Evaluation of GeneXpert PA assay compared to genomic and (semi-)quantitative culture methods for direct detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in endotracheal aspirates	23
Detecting inappropriate total duration of antimicrobial therapy using semi-automated surveillance	23
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on antibiotic use in Canadian primary care: a matched-cohort study using EMR data	23
Efficacy of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for early adaptation of antibiotic therapy in high-risk neutropenic patients	22
Characterisation of mobile colistin resistance genes (mcr-3 and mcr-5) in river and storm water in regions of the Western Cape of South Africa	22
Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years	21
Geographical information system and spatial–temporal statistics for monitoring infectious agents in hospital: a model using Klebsiella pneumoniae complex	21
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	21
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future	21
The effect of a hand hygiene intervention on infections in residents of nursing homes: a cluster randomized controlled trial	20
Point prevalence study of antibiotic appropriateness and possibility of early discharge from hospital among patients treated with antibiotics in a Swiss University Hospital	20
Silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) to trace the spread of pathogens in healthcare	20
COVID-19 patient and personal safety – lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and the way to the next normal	20
Development of a web-based contact tracing and point-of-care-testing workflow for SARS-CoV-2 at a German University Hospital	20
External validation of semi-automated surveillance algorithms for deep surgical site infections after colorectal surgery in an independent country	20
Predictors of early and interim culture un-conversion in multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective multi-center cohort study in China	19
Success and failures in MRSA infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Patterns and outcomes of health-care associated infections in the medical wards at Bugando medical centre: a longitudinal cohort study	19
Healthcare‑associated infections in intensive care unit patients with and without COVID-19: a single center prospective surveillance study	18
Surgical site infection and antimicrobial use following caesarean section at QECH in Blantyre, Malawi: a prospective cohort study	18
Effect of povidone-iodine and propanol-based mecetronium ethyl sulphate on antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus	18
Clean Hospitals Day 2024: the technical domains of healthcare environmental hygiene	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
Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Environmental contamination across multiple hospital departments with multidrug-resistant bacteria pose an elevated risk of healthcare-associated infections in Kenyan hospitals	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
Rinse, gel, and foam – is there any evidence for a difference in their effectiveness in preventing infections?	17
Baseline evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO) infection prevention and control (IPC) core components in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)	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
Antibiotic-resistance in medically important bacteria isolated from commercial herbal medicines in Africa from 2000 to 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Comparison of disease and economic burden between MRSA infection and MRSA colonization in a university hospital: a retrospective data integration study	17
A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec	17
Perceptions and attitudes about antibiotic resistance in the general public and general practitioners in France	16
Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study	16
A hospital-wide outbreak of IMI-17-producing Enterobacter ludwigii in an Israeli hospital	16
The prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
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	16
Economic impact of a care bundle to prevent surgical site infection after craniotomy: a cost-analysis study	16
Effectiveness of topical vancomycin in the prevention of spinal surgical site infections: a retrospective cohort study	16
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	15
Antibiotic consumption in hospitals in humanitarian settings in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan	15
Electronic monitoring of doffing using video surveillance to minimise error rate and increase safety at Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility	15
Outbreak with OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a COVID-19 ICU cohort: unraveling routes of transmission	15
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
Infection prevention strategies are highly protective in COVID-19 units while main risks to healthcare professionals come from coworkers and the community	15
Infection prevention and control in Indonesian hospitals: identification of strengths, gaps, and challenges	15
Surveillance of close contacts of patients with infectious tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study	15
Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study	15
Identifying excessive length of antibiotic treatment duration for hospital-acquired infections: a semi-automated approach to support antimicrobial stewardship	15
Surgical site infection surveillance in German hospitals: a national survey to determine the status quo of digitalization	15
Magnitude and determinants of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in dentistry: a nation-wide study	14
Prevalence and predictors of self-medication with antibiotics in selected urban and rural districts of the Dodoma region, Central Tanzania: a cross-sectional study	14
An outbreak of blaKPC−4- and blaVIM−1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella variicola at a single hospital in South Korea	14
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	14
Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force	14
Wastewater-based surveillance in Italy leading to the first detection of mcr-10-positive Klebsiella quasipneumoniae	14
The ICU-CARB score: a novel clinical scoring system to predict carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria carriage in critically ill patients upon ICU admission	14
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study	13
Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?	13
Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study	13
Antibiotic consumption in long-term care facilities in Poland and other European countries in 2017	13
The need to improve antimicrobial susceptibility testing capacity in Ugandan health facilities: insights from a surveillance primer	13
Effect of temperature on Escherichia coli bloodstream infection in a nationwide population-based study of incidence and resistance	13
Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers	13
A multicentric survey and single-centre observational study of usage behaviour of sinks in intensive care: training is needed to minimize risk	13
Extended spectrum and metalo beta lactamase producing gram negative bacterial pathogens from cockroaches collected at hospital, Southern Ethiopia	13
Healthcare institutions’ recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study	13
Evaluation of the feasibility, appropriateness, and acceptability of an environmental cleaning program improvement toolkit at a tertiary care hospital in Nigeria	12
A qualitative study of barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in Indonesian hospitals: governance, competing interests, cost, and structural vulnerability	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
Obesity and the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia	12
Integrated assessment of antimicrobial stewardship in carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae prevalent hospitals in China: a multidisciplinary surveillance network-based survey	12
Temporal trends in antimicrobial resistance of medically important pathogens on Curaçao	12
Combined antibiotic stewardship and infection control measures to contain the spread of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in an intensive care unit	12
Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review	12
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Egyptians towards antibiotic use in the community: can we do better?	12
Cross-site collaboration on infection prevention and control research—room for improvement? A 7-year comparative study in five European countries	12
Epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales infection in kidney transplant recipients	12
Antimicrobial prescribing in French nursing homes and interventions for antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	11
Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach	11
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	11
Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	11
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	11
A practice guide on antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes	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
What fuels suboptimal care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related infections in hospitals? A qualitative study of decision-making among Spanish nurses	11
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	11
Microbiological trends and mortality risk factors of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an academic medical center 2015–2020	11
Investigating the implementation of infection prevention and control practices in neonatal care across country income levels: a systematic review	11
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	11
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation	11
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	10
Increase in PVC-BSI during the second COVID-19 pandemic year: analysis of catheter and patient characteristics	10
Microbiologically confirmed infections and antibiotic-resistance in a national surveillance study of hospitalised patients who died with COVID-19, Italy 2020–2021	10
Active surveillance of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria to guide antibiotic therapy: a single-center prospective observational study	10
Exploring the perioperative infection control practices & incidence of surgical site infections in rural India	10
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	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
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
State of infection prevention and control in Austrian hospitals: data from 81 hospitals completing the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF)	10
Clinical factors associated with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) related bloodstream infections: a single centre retrospective cohort	10

SARS-CoV-2 aerosol generation during respiratory equipment reprocessing	10
Correction: Review and analysis of the overlapping threats of carbapenem and polymyxin resistant E. Coli and Klebsiella in Africa	10
Level of implementation of multimodal strategies for infection prevention and control interventions and prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Northern Italy	10
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	10
Changing dynamics of bloodstream infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Germany, 2017–2023: a continued burden of disease approa	9
Surveillance of Enterobacter cloacae complex colonization and comparative analysis of different typing methods on a neonatal intensive care unit in Germany	9
Novel chromosomal insertions of ISEcp1-blaCTX-M-15 and diverse antimicrobial resistance genes in Zambian clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli	9
Retraction Note: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of Vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	9
Assessing barriers and opportunities for the improvement of laboratory performance and robust surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria– a quantitative study	9
Late breaking abstracts from the 6th international conference on prevention & infection control (ICPIC 2021)	9
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of Latin American healthcare workers relating to antibiotic stewardship and antibiotic use: a cross-sectional multi-country study	9
Comparison of microbial colonization rates between central venous catheters and peripherally inserted central catheters	9
Sepsis: emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopian referral hospitals	9
Correction: Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	9
Handrub dispensers per acute care hospital bed: a study to develop a new minimum standard	9
The use of a UV-C disinfection robot in the routine cleaning process: a field study in an Academic hospital	9
Overuse of antibiotics in maternity and neonatal wards, a descriptive report from public hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	9
Mapping of infection prevention and control education and training in some countries of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region: current situation and future needs	9
Antibiotic resistance profiles and associated factors of Pseudomonas Infections among patients admitted to large tertiary care hospital from a developing country	9
Prevalence and predictors of self-medication with antibiotics in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
COVID-19 lessons learned: a global perspective	9
The effect of eye protection on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a systematic review	9
Droplets generated from toilets during urination as a possible vehicle of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae	9
Is virtual reality suitable for hand hygiene training in health care workers? Evaluating an application for acceptability and effectiveness	9
Evaluation of quality and antimicrobial efficacy of locally manufactured alcohol-based hand sanitizers marketed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the era of COVID-19	9
Correction: Comparison of two alcohol hand rubbing techniques regarding hand surface coverage among hospital workers: a quasi-randomized controlled trial	9
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	9
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	9
What is the impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs)? The results of a survey among a regional network of infectious disease centres	8
Correction: Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	8
The impact of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination on antibiotic use: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in clinical setting in South-Eastern Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Infection prevention and control in 2030: a first qualitative survey by the Crystal Ball Initiative	8
Does repeated exposure to hydrogen peroxide induce Candida auris resistance?	8
Exploring factors for antibiotic over-prescription in children with acute upper respiratory tract infections in Assiut, Egypt: a qualitative study	8
Awareness and perception of antimicrobial stewardship program among healthcare professionals in the hospitals of ministry of health and population, Egypt: antimicrobial stewardship toolkit survey	8
Acinetobacter baumannii: assessing susceptibility patterns, management practices, and mortality predictors in a tertiary teaching hospital in Lebanon	8
Reduction of early surgical site and other care related infections in 3553 hip fracture patients: lessons learned from the 5-year Safe Hands project	8
Epidemiological and genetic characteristics of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in a University Children's Hospital in Germany: 2019 to 2020	8
Antibiotic use at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania: findings from a point prevalence survey	8
Healthcare workers’ compliance with the catheter associated urinary tract infection prevention guidelines: an observational study in Yemen	8
An interdisciplinary student-led multifaceted intervention addressing overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics for patients with penicillin allergies	8
Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections caused by bacterial and fungal contamination of intravenous fluids and medicines in healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping re	8
Impact of interprofessional service-learning on the effectiveness of knowledge transfer of antimicrobial resistance to Hong Kong elders: a quasi-experiment	8
Infection prevention and control policies in hospitals and prevalence of highly resistant microorganisms: an international comparative study	8
Pseudomonas fluorescens CRBSI outbreak: complying with the standardization of invasive procedures is a step ahead in the fight against antimicrobial resistance	8
Impact of suboptimal or inappropriate treatment on healthcare resource use and cost among patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infection: an analysis of integrated delivery network electronic hea	8
Antibiotic treatment failure of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in primary care	7
Antimicrobial resistance and one health in the post COVID-19 era: What should health students learn?	7
Core components of infection prevention and control programs at the facility level in Kazakhstan: key challenges and opportunities	7
Automated surveillance of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP): a systematic literature review	7
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	7
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	7
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	7
Barriers to rational antibiotic prescription in Iran: a descriptive qualitative study	7
Exploring the use of cluster analysis to assess antibiotic stewardship in critically-ill neonates in a low resource setting	7
Multimodal environmental cleaning strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections	7
Impact of standard precautions and unrestricted movements of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) carriers on CPE transmission in a nursing home in Singapore: a prospective cohort study	7
Antimicrobial surface coating in the emergency department as protective technology for infection control (ASEPTIC): a pilot randomized controlled trial	7
Phenotype-genotype correlations among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales recovered from four Egyptian hospitals with the report of SPM carbapenemase	7
Validating administrative data to identify complex surgical site infections following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation: a comparison of traditional methods and machine learning	7
Resident-, prescriber-, and facility-level factors associated with antibiotic use in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of quantitative studies	7
Virus matrix interference on assessment of virucidal activity of high-touch surfaces designed to prevent hospital-acquired infections	7
Characterizing the bioburden of ESBL-producing organisms in a neonatal unit using chromogenic culture media: a feasible and efficient environmental sampling method	7
Gram-negative bacterial infections in surgical intensive care unit patients following abdominal surgery: high mortality associated with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection	7
A meta-analysis on the prevalence of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to different antibiotics in Nigeria	7
ESBL/pAmpC-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae carriage among veterinary healthcare workers in the Netherlands	7
Impact of an educational training about healthcare waste management on practices skills of healthcare workers: a prexperimental study in a tertiary Tunisian hospital	7
Central-line associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units before and after implementation of daily antiseptic bathing with chlorhexidine or octenidine: a post-hoc analysis of a cluster-ra	7
Impact of sterile gloving during proximal manipulation of central line catheter hub: the multicenter observational study CleanHandPROX	7
Effectiveness of chlorhexidine in preventing infections among patients undergoing cardiac surgeries: a meta-analysis and systematic review	7
Antimicrobial use among paediatric inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2017/2018	7
Are there reasons behind high Handrub consumption? A French National in-depth qualitative assessment	7
Nurses’ contribution to antimicrobial stewardship: business as usual?	7
Investigating environmental transmission to resolve a Bacillus cereus group outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit using core genome multilocus sequence typing	6
Rate of nosocomial MRSA transmission evaluated via contact screening	6
Improving antibiotic utilization in West Africa: enhancing interventions through systematic review and evidence synthesis	6
Patient and ward related risk factors in a multi-ward nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19: Outbreak investigation and matched case–control study	6
Under Armour – Use of personal protective equipment for simulated CPR of COVID-19 patients: an observational study	6
Does continuity in nursing staff matter? A pilot study on correlation of central line-associated bloodstream infections and employee turnover	6
Colonization of patients hospitalized at orthopedic department of tertiary hospital in Uganda with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacterales	6
Surveillance of catheter-associated bloodstream infections: development and validation of a fully automated algorithm	6
A qualitative study of infection prevention and control practices in the maternal units of two Ghanaian hospitals	6
Case report of the first cured patient with Mycobacterium Chimaera infection following cardiac valve replacement in the mainland of China	6
Intensivists’ beliefs about rapid multiplex molecular diagnostic testing and its potential role in improving prescribing decisions and antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	6
Comparing automated surveillance systems for detection of pathogen-related clusters in healthcare settings	6
Health care systems administrators perspectives on antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control programs across three healthcare levels: a qualitative study	6
The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods	6
Pharmacies and use of antibiotics: a cross sectional study in 19 Arab countries	6
Real-world experience of how chlorhexidine bathing affects the acquisition and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a medical intensive care unit with VRE endemicity: a prospective i	6
Blood bacterial resistant investigation collaborative system (BRICS) report: a national surveillance in China from 2014 to 2019	5
Review on infection control strategies to minimize outbreaks of the emerging pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis	5
Impact of early antibiotic exposure on the risk of colonization with potential pathogens in very preterm infants: a retrospective cohort analysis	5
Surveillance of antimicrobial utilization in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prescription rates, indications, and quality of use from point prevalence surveys	5
Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an assessment of frequency of isolation from ICU versus non-ICU, phenotypic and genotypic profiles in a multinational population of hospitalized patients	5